waqf
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Noun
- 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
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Verb
waqf (third-person singular simple present waqfs, present participle waqfing, simple past and past participle waqfed)
- (transitive) To give as a waqf.
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