waqf

See also: Waqf

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic وَقْف (waqf).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wɑkf/

Noun

waqf (plural awqaf or waqfs)

1. An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given over for religious or charitable purposes.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 25:

     The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 368:

     A small house at the centre of the bazaar dispensed coffee free of charge to the poor at the expense of the waqf, an Ottoman charitable foundation.

Translations

inalienable endowment for charity

• Arabic: وَقْف m (waqf)
• Bulgarian: вакъф (vakǎf)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦合甫 (wǎhéfǔ)

• Czech: vakf
• French: waqf (fr) m
• German: Waqf
• Greek: βακούφι (el) n (vakoúfi)
• Hebrew: וקף
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ワクフ (wakufu)
• Korean: 와크프 (wakeupeu)
• Malay: wukuf, wakaf
• Portuguese: wakf m or f
• Russian: ва́куф (ru) m (vákuf)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вакуф m

  Roman: vakuf (sh) m

• Turkish: vakıf (tr)

Verb

waqf (third-person singular simple present waqfs, present participle waqfing, simple past and past participle waqfed)

1. (transitive) To give as a waqf.