# Zal-Vav-Dal — ذود (pwd)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/pwd

- **Meaning:** To defend, to protect, to prevent, to repel, to expel, to drive out
- **Derived forms:** تَذُودَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 23

- **Form in this verse:** تَذُودَانِ ۖ — tadhūdāni · "keeping back"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, dual · present tense

وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَٓاءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ اُمَّةً مِنَ النَّاسِ يَسْقُونَۘ وَوَجَدَ مِنْ دُونِهِمُ امْرَاَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِۚ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَاۜ قَالَتَا لَا نَسْق۪ي حَتّٰى يُصْدِرَ الرِّعَٓاءُ وَاَبُونَا شَيْخٌ كَب۪يرٌ

Walamma warada maa madyanawajada AAalayhi ommatan mina annasi yasqoonawawajada min doonihimu imraatayni tathoodani qalama khatbukuma qalata lanasqee hatta yusdira arriAAaowaaboona shaykhun kabeer

And when he arrived at the water of Madyan, he found there a community of people watering, and he found besides them two women holding back; he said: “What is your case?” They said: “We do not water until the shepherds drive hence; and our father is a very old man.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qasas/verse-23.md_

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