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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اوقاف, from Arabic أَوْقَاف (ʔawqāf), plural of وَقْف (waqf, “inalienable property, waqf”) (from which vakıf).
Noun
evkaf (definite accusative evkafı, plural evkaflar)
- property held in mortmain
1936 July 21, “İstanbul Camileri tamir ediliyor”, in Münakasa gazetesi, page 2:Yeni bir kanunla Evkaf umum müdürlüğü mevcut âbidatin tamiri için 200 bin lira istikraz yapmıştır.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evkaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN