evkaf

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish اوقاف, from Arabic أَوْقَاف (ʔawqāf), plural of وَقْف (waqf, “inalienable property, waqf”) (from which vakıf).

Noun[edit]

evkaf (definite accusative evkafı, plural evkaflar)

  1. property held in mortmain
    • 1936 July 21, “İstanbul Camileri tamir ediliyor”, in Münakasa gazetesi, page 2:
      Yeni bir kanunla Evkaf umum müdürlüğü mevcut âbidatin tamiri için 200 bin lira istikraz yapmıştır.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References[edit]

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evkaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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