وتد

Arabic

Etymology

From the root و ت د‎ (w-t-d). Cognate to Hebrew יָתֵד‎ (yāted, “stake, peg”).

Verb

وَتَدَ • (watada) I, non-past يَتِدُ‎‎ (yatidu)

  1. to ram firmly, to thrust, to wedge

Conjugation

Verb

وَتَّدَ • (wattada) II, non-past يُوَتِّدُ‎‎ (yuwattidu)

  1. to ram firmly, to thrust, to wedge

Conjugation

Noun

وَتَد or وَتِد • (watad or watid) m (plural أَوْتَاد‎ (ʔawtād))

  1. wood peg, wedge, picket, stake, brad
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:10:
      ‏وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي ٱلْأَوْتَادِ‎
      wafirʕawna ḏī l-ʔawtādi
      And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?
    • ‏فَدَخَلْتُ فَكَمَنْتُ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ النَّاسُ أَغْلَقَ الْبَابَ، ثُمَّ عَلَّقَ الأَغَالِيقَ عَلَى وَتَدٍ قَالَ فَقُمْتُ إِلَى الأَقَالِيدِ، فَأَخَذْتُهَا فَفَتَحْتُ الْبَابَ.‎‎
      fadaḵaltu fakamantu, falammā daḵala n-nāsu ʔaḡlaqa l-bāba, ṯumma ʕallaqa l-ʔaḡālīqa ʕalā watadin qāla faqumtu ʔilā l-ʔaqālīdi, faʔaḵaḏtuhā fafataḥtu l-bāba.
      So I went in (the castle) and hid myself. When the people got inside, the gate-keeper closed the gate and hung the keys on a fixed wooden peg. I got up and took the keys and opened the gate.

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • “وتد” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), “وتد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 431–432
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