وَقَفَ
Root: وقف
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 وَقَفَ الدَّابَّةَ, Verbal.Noun وَقْفٌ, He made the beast to be, or become, still, or motionless.
3 وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He stopped, or paused, upon coming to him, or it; he stopped, or paused, at it; or where he, or it, was.
4 وَقَفَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ He paused at, and paid attention to, a thing.
5 وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He comprehended it, namely, a meaning: he understood it. (TA. [Or, correctly, وُقِفَ, for it is there altered.])
6 He met with it; namely, a word or the like, in reading: often occurring in this sense.
7 وُقِفَ عَلَيْهِ He saw it: and he was introduced into it, and knew what was in it. He was made to know it surely. See Bd, vi. 27 and 30.
8 وَقَفْتُهُ على ذَنْبِهِ I made him acquainted with, or made him to know, his crime, sin, fault, or the like; and so عَلَيْهِ, q. v.
9 وَقَفَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun وُقُوفٌ, He withstood, resisted: governing by عَنْ.
10 وَقَفَهُ and and [He bequeathed it, or gave it, unalienably:] the first of these is the most chaste: the last is disapproved and rare. (TA, art. حبس.) See مُؤَبَّدٌ.
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