وقفه

See also: وفقة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَقْفَة (waqfa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [waq.ˈfa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wäq.fǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [væʁ.fé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [väq.fǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	waqfa
Dari reading?	waqfa
Iranian reading?	vağfe
Tajik reading?	vaqfa

Noun

وقفه • (vaqfe)

1. gap, stop, pause, break, standstill

   Synonyms: توقف (tavaqqof), ایست (ist), سکون (sokun)

   • late 1100s, Khāqānī, “Qaṣīda 139”, in دیوان خاقانی‎^[1]:

     گرچه رهرو نکند وقفه، کنم وقفه از آنک
     کشش همت اخوان به خراسان یابم

     garči rahraw na-konad waqfa, kunam waqfa az ānk
     kašiš-i himmat-i ixwān ba xurāsān yābam

     Though the wayfarer should not pause, I have paused because
     I shall find the pull of my brethren's ambitions in Khurāsān.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• بدون وقفه (bedun-e vaqfe)
• بی‌وقفه (bi-vaqfe)

 

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “وقفه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وقفه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim