waqf

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

From Arabic وَقْف (waqf).

• IPA^(key): /wɑkf/
• Rhymes: -ɑkf

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.

   • 2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University‎^[1], page 2:

     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.

   • 2023 October 10, Bruce Hoffman, “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 October 2023:

     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.

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

1. (transitive) To give as a waqf.