How to say "peg (tent peg/wedge)" in Arabic
CognateMeaningpeg (tent peg/wedge)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
وَتَد
watadותד
وتد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יתד
yatedيَاتِد
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
و-ت-دHebrew root
י-ת-דA textbook example of Hebrew's initial *w→י shift: Proto-Semitic *watid- gives Arabic وَتَد unchanged but Hebrew יָתֵד — the same shift seen in وَلَد→ילד and وَعَد→יעד. Sisera's famous tent peg (Judges 4) is a יתד; a Bedouin's is a watad.
Learn it
In a phrase
دَقَّ الْوَتَد فِي الْأَرْض
daqqa al-watad fī l-arḍדק אל-ותד פי אל-ארצ'He drove the peg into the ground.
Plural
أَوْتَاد
awtādאותאדbroken plural aCCāC — like سوق→أسواق