waqf

plural awqaf · plural waqfs · alternative wakf · alternative Malaysia Singapore wakaf · alternative obsolete vacouf · alternative obsolete vakouf

1. IslamAn endowment of land given for religious or charitable purposes.

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

   1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb, CF Beckingham, editors, The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society, published 2012, page 25

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   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.

   2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 368

   You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example: Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest.

   2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University, page 2

   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.

   2023 October 10, Bruce Hoffman, “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023

present singular third person waqfs · participle present waqfing · participle past waqfed · past waqfed · alternative wakf · alternative Malaysia Singapore wakaf · alternative obsolete vacouf · alternative obsolete vakouf

1. transitiveTo give as a waqf.