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vakouf

vakouf 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 vakouf

pluralvakoufs

Questions about vakouf

What is vakouf the obsolete form of?
Vakouf is the obsolete form of waqf.

Words near vakouf in the dictionary

  1. vakias
  2. vakil
  3. vakils
  4. Vakinankaratra
  5. Vakkaliga
  6. vakouf
  7. vakoufs
  8. Vaksdal
  9. Vakulabharanam
  10. val
  11. Val d'Aran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vakouf (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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