1. وَقَفَ
1 waqafa * He was, or became, still, or stationary; (Msb;) [ he stood still; ] he continued standing: (K:) and [simply] he stood; contr. of jalasa . (TA.) ― -b2- waqafa Ald~aAb~apa , inf. n. waqofN , He made the beast to be, or become, still, or motionless. (Msb.) ― -b3- waqafa Ealayohi He stopped, or paused, upon coming to him, or it; he stopped, or paused, at it; or where he, or it, was. ― -b4- waqafa EalaY $aYo'K He paused at, and paid attention to, a thing. ― -b5- waqafa Ealayohi He comprehended it, namely, a meaning: he understood it. (TA. [Or, correctly, wuqifa , for it is there altered.]) ― -b6- He met with it; namely, a word or the like, in reading: often occurring in this sense. ― -b7- wuqifa Ealayohi 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- waqafotuhu ElY *anobihi I made him acquainted with, or made him to know, his crime, sin, fault, or the like; (S, K:) and so Ealayohi ↓ A^awoqafahu , q. v. (Mgh.) ― -b9- waqafa , aor. waqifa , inf. n. wuquwfN , He withstood, resisted: governing by Eano . ― -b10- waqafahu and ↓ A^awoqafahu and ↓ waq~afahu [ He bequeathed it, or gave it, unalienably: ] the first of these is the most chaste: the last is disapproved and rare. (TA, art. Hbs .) See muw^ab~adN .