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wafā(inf. n. of وفی 'to perform a promise,' etc.), s.f. Performing (or performance of) a promise, keeping an engagement; fulfilment;—observation of good faith, faithfulness, fidelity; sincerity; gratitude;—sufficing; a sufficiency; a completing or filling up; completion, conclusion, end:—wafā-begānā, adj. Faithless:—wafā-parast, adj. Faithful; sincere:—wafā-peshagī, s.f. The constant observance of good faith, fidelity:—wafā-pesha, adj. Practising good faith, ever faithful:—wafā-dār, adj. Faithful, trusty, true, loyal:—wafā-dārī, s.f. Faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty; sincerity, constancy:—wafākarnā(-se), To keep faith (with), to be faithful, loyal, or true; to perform a promise, etc.; to fulfil; to satisfy; to come up to expectations;—to suffice (for);—to bear (with); tolive in peace (with):—wafā-kesh, adj. 'Prone to fidelity,' faithful, etc. (i.q. wafā-pesha; wafā-dār):—be wafā, adj. Faithless, false, treacherous.
Origin: Arabic