Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, و

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1 وَقَفَ ذ He was, or became, still, or stationary; (Msb;) [he stood still;] he continued standing: (K:) and [simply] he stood; contr. of جَلَسَ. (TA.) ― -b2- وَقَفَ الدَّابَّةَ, inf. n. وَقْفٌ, He made the beast to be, or become, still, or motionless. (Msb.) ― -b3- وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He stopped, or paused, upon coming to him, or it; he stopped, or paused, at it; or where he, or it, was. ― -b4- وَقَفَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ He paused at, and paid attention to, a thing. ― -b5- وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He comprehended it, namely, a meaning: he understood it. (TA. [Or, correctly, وُقِفَ, for it is there altered.]) ― -b6- He met with it; namely, a word or the like, in reading: often occurring in this sense. ― -b7- وُقِفَ عَلَيْهِ He saw it: and he was introduced into it, and knew what was in it. (TA.) He was made to know it surely. See Bd, vi. 27 and 30. ― -b8- وَقَفْتُهُ على ذَنْبِهِ I made him acquainted with, or made him to know, his crime, sin, fault, or the like; (S, K:) and so عَلَيْهِ ↓ أَوْقَفَهُ , q. v. (Mgh.) ― -b9- وَقَفَ, aor. وَقِفَ , inf. n. وُقُوفٌ, He withstood, resisted: governing by عَنْ. ― -b10- وَقَفَهُ and ↓ أَوْقَفَهُ and ↓ وَقَّفَهُ [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.