different between waqf vs imaret

English

Alternative forms

• vacouf, vakouf (obsolete)
• wakf

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (waqf).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /w?kf/

Noun

waqf (plural awqaf or waqfs)

1. An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given over for religious or charitable purposes.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 25:

     The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 368:

     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.

Translations

Verb

waqf (third-person singular simple present waqfs, present participle waqfing, simple past and past participle waqfed)

1. (transitive) To give as a waqf.

English

Etymology

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Noun

imaret (plural imarets)

1. (historical or architecture) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
   • 1996, Aptulla Kuran, A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul, Gülru Necipo?lu (editor), Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islam World, Volume XIII, Harvard University, page 118,

     Ytldtnm Bayezid had located his imaret in the opposite direction, some two kilometers to the east of the city. Mehmed I chose a site closer to the center, between the imarets of Orhan Gazi and Ytldtnm Bayezid.

   • 2000, John Freely, The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara, page 383,

     It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.

   • 2006, T. Byram Karasu, Of God and Madness, page 217,

     He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan.

Translations

Anagrams

• AIRMET, Martie, mariet, matier, mirate