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vacouf

vacouf is the obsolete form of waqf.

Meaning of waqf

Noun

waqf (plural awqaf or waqfs)

  1. An endowment of land given for religious or charitable purposes.
    • The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers.1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb, CF Beckingham, editors, The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society, published 2012, page 25

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Forms of vacouf

pluralvacoufs

Questions about vacouf

What is vacouf the obsolete form of?
Vacouf is the obsolete form of waqf.

Words near vacouf in the dictionary

  1. vackeels
  2. vacking
  3. vacky
  4. Vaclavik
  5. vacon
  6. vacouf
  7. vacoufs
  8. vacreation
  9. vacreator
  10. vacreators
  11. vacs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacouf (page history and authors); waqf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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