وقفه

See also: وفقة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَقْفَة (waqfa).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /waq.ˈfa/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [væʁ.fé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [väq.fǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	waqfa
Dari reading^?	waqfa
Iranian reading^?	vaġfe
Tajik reading^?	vaqfa

Noun

وقفه • (vaqfe)

gap, stop, pause, break, standstill
Synonyms: توقف (tavaqqof), ایست (ist), سکون (sokun)
- late 1100s, Khāqānī, “Qaṣīda 139”, in دیوان خاقانی‎^[1]:
  گرچه رهرو نکند وقفه، کنم وقفه از آنک
  کشش همت اخوان به خراسان یابم
  garči rahraw na-konad waqfa, kunam waqfa az ānk
  kašiš-i himmat-i ixwān ba xurāsān yābam
  Though the wayfarer should not pause, I have paused because
  I shall find the pull of my brethren's ambitions in Khurāsān.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

بدون وقفه (bedun-e vaqfe)
بی‌وقفه (bi-vaqfe)

Further reading

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