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PRONUNCIATION OF WAQF

waqf  [wɑːkf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAQF

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Waqf is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAQF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

waqf

Waqf

A waqf, also spelled wakf, is, under the context of 'sadaqah', an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law, typically donating a building or plot of land or even cash for Muslim religious or charitable purposes. The donated assets are held by a charitable trust. The grant is known as mushrut-ul-khidmat, while a person making such dedication is known as wakif.

Definition of waqf in the English dictionary

The definition of waqf in the dictionary is the Muslim practice of endowing property to a religious institution.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAQF

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Synonyms and antonyms of waqf in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «waqf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAQF

Find out the translation of waqf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of waqf from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «waqf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

教产
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

waqf
570 millions of speakers

English

waqf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वक्फ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوقف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вакф
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Waqf
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ওয়াকফ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

waqf
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Waqf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

waqf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ワクフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

waqf
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Waqf
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

waqf
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வக்ப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वक्फ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vakıf
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

waqf
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

waqf
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вакф
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Waqf
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

waqf
15 millions of speakers
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Waqf
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Waqf
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

waqf
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of waqf

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAQF»

The term «waqf» is normally little used and occupies the 114.672 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAQF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about waqf

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAQF»

Discover the use of waqf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to waqf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Birth of a Legal Institution: The Formation of the Waqf ...
This work presents an analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf - the Ah kam al-Waaf" of Hilal al-Ray and the Ah kam al-Awqaf of al-Khassaf. This work undertakes a textual analysis of the treatises.
Peter C. Hennigan, 2004
2
Endowments, Rulers, and Community: Waqf Al-òHaramayn in ...
One of the first studies of a major public waqf foundation based on its own registers, this work offers new insights into the working of the Islamic endowment in general, and its socio-economic significance to the history of Ottoman Algiers ...
Miriam Hoexter, 1998
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Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a ...
servers, who have tended, in the absence of specific information to the contrary, to assume that waqf property was inalienable. It is not uncommon to find such remarks as “it is well—known that the sale, exchange, or any other alteration in the ...
R. D. McChesney, 2014
4
Origin and Development of Islamic Law
concede to the original owner the right of being a beneficiary under the waqf. The beneficiaries need not be the waqif's descendants, though this is generally the case; they may be strangers. Provided the first beneficiary is in existence, any ...
Majid Khadduri, Herbert J. Liebesny, 1955
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Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the ...
WOMEN AND WAQF REVISITED: THE CASE OF ALEPPO, 1770-1840 MARGARET L. MERIWETHER Denison University In the early 1980s the late Gabriel Baer published an article on women and waqf (Muslim endowment for religious or ...
Madeline C. Zilfi, 1997
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Islamic Capitalism and Finance: Origins, Evolution and the ...
This bank floated the cash waqf certificate as a financial instrument in 1997. The three sectors are a formal incorporated bank, a non-formal bank focusing primarily on microinvestment and microenterprises and finally a voluntary banking ...
Murat Çizakça, 2011
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Women in Muslim Family Law
waqf raised by judicial decisions, the law stated that "No such waqf [i.e., family waqf] shall be deemed to be invalid merely because the benefit reserved therein for the poor or other religious, pious or charitable purpose of a permanent nature is ...
John L. Esposito, 2001
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Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and ...
By integrating architecture and urbanism in the historical analysis of the period under study, this book is an important acquisition for historians and art historians of Egypt
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 1994
9
Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen ...
It is perhaps this diminishing return from zakat, coupled with the ever-present exhortation to be beneficent, which led to the increased popularity of a waqf, a means to fulfill the demand to be charitable while reserving the possibility of benefit to ...
Amy Singer, 2002
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The Islamic Voluntary Sector in Southeast Asia: Islam and ...
good of the community. Waqfacts as a foundation that serves the community, using the resources provided by endowments. The essence of the institution of waqf (or awqaf as it is sometimes referred to) is that incomes from waqf properties are ...
Mohamed Ariff, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAQF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term waqf is used in the context of the following news items.
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Shia Waqf Board Levels Graft Charges Against Mukhtar Abbas …
Lucknow: Athar Abbas Naqvi, brother of BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has sent a legal notice to Shia Central Waqf Board's chairman and sought for a ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
2
Shia waqf board notice to Vijay Mallya
LUCKNOW: Shia Central Board of Waqfs, UP, on Wednesday issued a notice to liquor baron Vijay Mallya for purchasing a waqf (endowment) land in Meerut ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
3
HC notice to Delhi government on vacating 990 Waqf properties
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the state revenue secretary and Delhi Waqf Board on a PIL seeking direction for enforcement ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
Syed Waseem Rizvi hits back at Maulana Kalbe Jawwad: 'Sold waqf
Jawwad is leading an agitation by a group of Shia community members demanding removal of Rizvi from the chairmanship alleging corruption in waqf board. «The Indian Express, Jun 15»
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Kalb-e-Jawwad leads protest against Shia Waqf Board chief in …
The Shia leader was leading a march from the Bada Imambara (shrine) towards Hazratganj to press for sacking of the Shia Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi ... «ummid.com, Jun 15»
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Bara Imambara embroiled in controversy over Shia Waqf Board …
Lucknow: The iconic Bara Imambara in Lucknow is embroiled in a controversy over the Shia Waqf Board elections. Supporters of Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe ... «IBNLive, Jun 15»
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Rizvi re-elected as Shia Waqf board chairman
Despite having a controversial tenure, Syed Waseem Rizvi was re-elected unopposed on Tuesday as chairman of the UP Shia Central Board of Waqfs for the ... «The Indian Express, May 15»
8
NBCC rallies on signing MoU to develop four Waqf properties
Seeking to develop waqf properties as institutional and commercial projects, NAWADCO had signed an MoU with National Building Construction Corporation, ... «Economic Times, May 15»
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Western Wall chief rabbi: Islamic Waqf inciting against efforts to …
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the top religious official responsible for the Western Wall in Jerusalem, released a statement to the press saying that the Waqf, the ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Feb 15»
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Waqf Boards' property to be registered for minority welfare: Heptullah
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptullah on Thursday said that the property belonging to Muslim Sunni and Shia Waqf boards in the country will be ... «The Indian Express, Jan 15»

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