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Muhammad Asad   
and the mountains [its] pegs
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
and ˹made˺ the mountains as ˹its˺ pegs,
Safi Kaskas   
And the mountains as pegs?

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Arabic   
وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادً
Transliteration (2021)   
wal-jibāla awtāda
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
  
And the mountains (as) pegs,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
and the mountains [its] pegs
M. M. Pickthall   
And the high hills bulwarks
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
And the mountains as pegs
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
and ˹made˺ the mountains as ˹its˺ pegs,
Safi Kaskas   
And the mountains as pegs?
Wahiduddin Khan   
and raised the mountains like supporting poles
Shakir   
And the mountains as projections (thereon)
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
and the mountains as stakes?
T.B.Irving   
and [set] the mountains up as kingpins?
Abdul Hye   
the mountains as pegs,
The Study Quran   
and the mountains stakes
Dr. Kamal Omar   
And the mountains as pegs (to keep the earth stable)
Farook Malik   
and the mountains as pegs
Talal A. Itani (new translation)   
And the mountains pegs
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And the mountains as bulwarks
Muhammad Sarwar   
and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
and the mountains bulwarks
Shabbir Ahmed   
And the mountains as pegs
Dr. Munir Munshey   
And (nailed) the Mountains (down) as pegs
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
And the mountains as pegs
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
And the mountains as stakes
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
And the mountains as peg
Abdel Haleem   
and make the mountains to keep it stable
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
And the mountains as stakes
Ahmed Ali   
The mountains tent-pins
Aisha Bewley   
and the mountains its pegs?
Ali Ünal   
And the mountains as masts
Ali Quli Qara'i   
and the mountains stakes
Hamid S. Aziz   
And the mountains as projections (thereon)
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
and the mountains as pins
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
And the mountains as pegs
Musharraf Hussain   
the mountains like mighty stakes?
Maududi   
and fixed the mountains like pegs
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
And the mountains as pegs?
Mohammad Shafi   
And the mountains as stabilisers ?

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
And the mountains as stakes?
Rashad Khalifa   
And the mountains stabilizers
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
and the mountains as pegs
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
And the mountains as pegs
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira   
And the mountains (as) stakes/hooks (anchors)
Bijan Moeinian   
And stabilized the mountain
Faridul Haque   
And the mountains as pegs
Sher Ali   
And the mountains as pegs
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
And (have We not) erected mountains raised (out of it)
Amatul Rahman Omar   
And the mountains as (a series of) pegs
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
And the mountains as pegs

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
and the mountains as pegs
George Sale   
and the mountains for stakes to fix the same
Edward Henry Palmer   
and the mountains as stakes
John Medows Rodwell   
And the mountains its tent-stakes
N J Dawood (2014)   
and raise the mountains like supporting pillars

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
[Haven’t We made it] with mountains like anchors?
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
and [set] the mountains up as kingpins?
Sayyid Qutb   
and made the mountains as pegs?
Ahmed Hulusi   
And the mountains (the organs in the body) as stakes.
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)   
"and (We made) the mountains as pegs (to hold it firm),"
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
And the mountains as pegs
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim   
and the mountains as stays that afford stabilization!
Mir Aneesuddin   
and the mountains pegs?

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
And the mountains as pegs
OLD Literal Word for Word   
And the mountains (as) pegs