توقف

Mediopassive of وَقَّفَ (waqqafa, “to stop (transitive), to bring to a stop”), from the root و ق ف (w q f); compare وَقَفَ (waqafa, “to stop (intransitive)”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.waq.qa.fa/

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تَوَقَّفَ • (tawaqqafa) V (non-past يَتَوَقَّفُ (yatawaqqafu), verbal noun تَوَقُّف (tawaqquf))

1. to stop, to come to a stop; to come to an end

   تَوَقَّفَ ٱلزَّمَنُ ― tawaqqafa z-zamanu ― The time stopped.

2. to depend on (something) [with عَلَى (ʕalā)]

• IPA^(key): /ta.waq.quf/

تَوَقُّف • (tawaqquf) m

1. verbal noun of تَوَقَّفَ (tawaqqafa) (form V)
2. stopping (intransitive)
3. hesitating
4. perseverance
5. expectation, dependency

• → Azerbaijani: təvəqqüf
• → Ottoman Turkish: توقف
  • → Turkish: tevakkuf

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “توقف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic تَوَقُّف (tawaqquf), verbal noun of تَوَقَّفَ (tawaqqafa).

توقف • (tevakkuf)

1. stopping, standing still
2. remaining in a place; stay
3. dependence

• وقف (vakıf)

• Turkish: tevakkuf

• اگلشمك (eğleşmek, “to stop, delay, stay”)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tevakkuf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توقف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 612
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1164

Borrowed from Arabic تَوَقُّف (tawaqquf).

توقف • (tavaqqof)

1. stop, stopping, halt
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 196:

     ساقی چو جهان فانیست جام آر توقف چیست
     کامروز سلیمی نیست بر ملکت جم قانع

     sāqī čū jahān fānī-st jām ār tawaqquf čī-st
     k-imrōz salīmī nīst bar malakat-i jam qāni'

     Cupbearer, since the world is ephemeral, bring the cup! Why this halt?
     For today, Selim is not content with Jamshid's dominion.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • 2016 April 11, “توقف ارسال ایمیل‌های خبری روزانه از بی‌بی‌سی فارسی”, in bbc.com/persian‎^[3], BBC Persian:

     توقف ارسال ایمیل‌های خبری روزانه از بی‌بی‌سی فارسی

     tavaqqof-e ersâl-e imeyl-hâ-ye xabari-ye ruzâne az bi-bi-si fârsi

     Cessation of dispatch of daily email newsletters from BBC Persian

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “توقف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “توقف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic تَوَقَّفَ (tawaqqafa).

• IPA^(key): /twaʔ.ʔaf/, [ɪtˈwaʔ.ʔaf]

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توقف • (twaʔʔaf) V (present بتوقّف (bitwaʔʔaf))

1. (intransitive) to stop, to halt
2. (passive voice) to be arrested
3. to depend (+ على)

   Synonym: تعلّق (tʕallaʔ)