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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish موقوف (mevkuf), from Arabic مَوْقُوف (mawqūf), passive participle of وَقَفَ (waqafa).
Adjective
mevkuf
- arrested, detained, held, stopped
- (with ablative) dependent on
- Synonyms: ait, bağlı
- (law, Islam) dedicated to a waqf
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mevkuf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 759
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mevkuf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN