وَتِدٌ
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, (S, M, K, &c.,) of the dialect of El-Hijáz, and the most chaste form, (Msb,) and
وَتَدٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and
وَتْدٌ, (L, K,) and
وَدٌّ, (S, M, Msb,) of the dialect of Nejd, (Msb,) the ت being made quiescent, and then changed into د, and incorporated into the final د, (S, * Msb,) and
وَتِيدٌ, (L, article ود,) A wooden pin, peg, or stake, which is fixed in the ground or in a wall: (M, L, K:) plural أَوْتَادٌ. (S, M, L, K.) [You say,] أَذَلُّ مَنْ وَتِدٍ بِقَاعٍ [More vile than a wooden peg in a plain]: because it is always knocked. A proverb. (TA.)
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أَوْتَادُ الأَرْضِ (tropical:) [lit. The pegs, or stakes, of the earth; i. e.] the mountains: (A, L, K:) so called because they make the earth firm, or fast. (L.)
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وَتِدٌ, of a sandal, (assumed tropical:) The part that projects from the ear [or loop]. (L.)
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وَتِدٌ (assumed tropical:) [A peg of a
بَيْت, q. v.;] a portion, or division, of a foot of a verse, consisting of three letters: (L, K *:) it is of two kinds: one consisting of two movent letters followed by a quiescent letter; as فَعُو and عِلُنْ; which kind is called وَتِدٌ مَقْرُونٌ, a conjoined peg; because each two letters are conjoined by a vowel: the other consisting of three letters; one movent, then one quiescent, then one movent; as لَاتُ in مَفْعُولَاتُ; which kind is called وَتِدٌ مَفْرُوقٌ, a disjoined peg; because the quiescent letter disjoins the two movent letters: plural أَوْتَادٌ. زِحَاف does not take place in the اوتاد, because the foot depends upon them; but it does in the أَسْبَاب. (L.)
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وَتِدٌ (A, L, K) and وَتِدَةٌ (L) of the ear., (tropical:) [The tragus;] the small prominent thing in the anterior part, (A, L, K,) like a teat, (A, L,) next the uppermost part of the side of the beard: (L:) or the prominent part next the temple: (L:) or the وَتِدَانِ of the two ears are the two parts in the interior thereof resembling a
وَتِد, also called the
عَيْرَانِ. (S.)