waqf

See also: Waqf

English

Alternative forms

• vacouf, vakouf (obsolete)
• wakf
• wakaf (Malaysia, Singapore)

Etymology

From Arabic وَقْف (waqf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑkf/
• Rhymes: -ɑkf

Noun

waqf (plural awqaf or waqfs)

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

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

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 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.

   • 2023 October 10, Bruce Hoffman, “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Palestine is described as an “Islamic Waqf”—an endowment predicated on Muslim religious, education, or charitable principles and therefore inviolate to any other peoples or religions.

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
• Indonesian: wakaf (id)
• Japanese: ワクフ (wakufu)
• Korean: 와크프 (wakeupeu)
• Macedonian: вакаф (vakaf)
• Malay: wukuf, wakaf
• Persian: وَقْف (fa) (vaqf)
• 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.