evkaf

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)

1. 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.

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References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evkaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN