waqf

From Arabic وَقْف‎ (waqf).

IPA^(key): /wɑkf/

waqf (plural awqaf or waqfs)

1. An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given over for religious or charitable purposes.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 25:

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

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 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.

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

1. (transitive) To give as a waqf.