# Vav-Te-Dal — وتد (wtd)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to drive in a stake, fix a stake into the ground, fix a thing firmly. autaad - stakes, hosts, pegs, chiefs, armies, poles of tents.
- **Derived forms:** أَوْتَاد (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 38. Surah Sad, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَوْتَادِ — l-awtādi · "(of) the stakes"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · genitive case

كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ وَعَادٌ وَفِرْعَوْنُ ذُوالْاَوْتَادِۙ

Kaththabat qablahum qawmu noohinwaAAadun wafirAAawnu thoo al-awtad

The people of Noah denied before them, and ʿĀd, and Pharaoh, the Lord of Stakes,

_https://quran.so/surah-sad/verse-12.md_

### 78. Surah An-Naba, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** أَوْتَادًۭا — awtādan · "(as) pegs"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case · indefinite

وَالْجِبَالَ اَوْتَاداًۖ

Waljibala awtada

And the mountains as stakes?

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naba/verse-7.md_

### 89. Surah Al-Fajr, Verse 10

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَوْتَادِ — l-awtādi · "stakes"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · genitive case

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي الْاَوْتَادِۙۖ

WafirAAawna thee al-awtad

And Pharaoh, the Lord of Stakes

_https://quran.so/surah-al-fajr/verse-10.md_

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