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5/30/2025, 10:48 PM Mike C vaqif added (from user-submitted name 276786)
1/16/2025, 11:03 AM Eleuteria 276786
11/6/2020, 12:45 PM HL 276786
11/6/2020, 12:43 PM HL 276786
9/16/2020, 10:16 AM HL 276786
1/1/2018, 9:22 PM HL

Gender Masculine
Pronounced Pron. /vɑ.ˈɡif/
Note In Azerbaijani this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as VAQİF in uppercase and vaqif in lowercase.

Meaning & History

From Persian واقف (vāqef) meaning "informed, knowledgeable, aware", a derivative of Arabic وقف (waqafa) meaning "to stop, to inquire" [1]. This was the pen name of Molla Pənah, an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet and statesman.