Nowhaa

A Quranic Name for Girls

Meaning: Intelligent, Educated and Intellectual

Nowhaa is variant of Nuha and has the exact same meaning and pronunciation (see below for full meaning). You can use either Nowhaa or Nuha, both are correct and acceptable. If you like this variant more and you'd like to pronounce it the way it is spelled (different than the original name), this is perfectly acceptable. For more details please see the main entry at: Nuha.

Full Meaning of Nowhaa

Nowhaa is a direct Quranic name for girls that means “ability to think”, “intelligence”, “mind”, “reason”, “intellect”. Nowhaa is used twice in the Quran, in the following verses:

Eat, [then, of this produce of the soil,] and pasture your cattle [thereon]. In all this, behold, there are messages indeed for those who are endowed with the ability to think. (Quran 20:54)

CAN, THEN, they [who reject the truth] learn no lesson by recalling how many a generation We have destroyed before their time? – [people] in whose dwelling-places they [themselves now] walk about? In this, behold, there are messages indeed for those who are endowed with reason! (Quran 20:128)