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plural awqaf or waqfs
An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given for religious or charitable purposes. quotations examples
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
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.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 368
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.
2023 October 10, Bruce Hoffman, “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology”, in The Atlantic
third-person singular simple present waqfs, present participle waqfing, simple past and past participle waqfed
(transitive) To give as a waqf. examples