Waqf

//wɑkf//

Synonyms for "waqf" (1 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Translations

21 translations across 19 languages.

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Arabic

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  • وَقْف noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • вакъф noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 瓦合甫 noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Czech

1 entries
  • vakf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

French

1 entries
  • waqf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

German

1 entries
  • Waqf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Greek

1 entries
  • βακούφι noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • וקף noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • wakaf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ワクフ noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Korean

1 entries
  • 와크프 noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • вакаф noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Malay

2 entries
  • wakaf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)
  • wukuf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Persian

1 entries
  • وَقْف noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • wakf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Russian

1 entries
  • ва́куф noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • vakuf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)
  • вакуф noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Turkish

1 entries
  • vakıf noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Urdu

1 entries
  • وقف noun (inalienable endowment for charity)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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