وَقَفَ

He was, or became, still, or stationary; (Msb;) [he stood still;] he continued standing: (K:) and [simply] he stood; opposite of جَلَسَ. (TA.)

وَقَفَ الدَّابَّةَ, verbal noun وَقْفٌ, He made the beast to be, or become, still, or motionless. (Msb.)

وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He stopped, or paused, upon coming to him, or it; he stopped, or paused, at it; or where he, or it, was.

وَقَفَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ He paused at, and paid attention to, a thing.

وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ He comprehended it, namely, a meaning: he understood it. (TA. [Or, correctly, وُقِفَ, for it is there altered.])

He met with it; namely, a word or the like, in reading: often occurring in this sense.

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.

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.)

وَقَفَ, aorist وَقِفَ , verbal noun وُقُوفٌ, He withstood, resisted: governing by عَنْ.

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, article حبس.) See مُوءَبَّدٌ.