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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘chest of a camel, thorax; (of a camel) to lie down on the chest; a group of camels; bounty, a blessing, to be blessed, to be great; the blessed, to be praised; a pond’

▪ BRK_1: from protSem *birk- ‘knee’ – DRS 2 (1994) #BRK-1.
▪ BRK_2: From WSem *√BRK ‘to bless’, probably a metathesized variant of *√KRB – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BRK-1 *birk- ‘genou’: Akk birk-, burk-, Ug brk, Hbr berek, PehlAram brk, JP birkā, Syr burkā, Aysor birkʸä, Soq *berk, Mhr bark, Gz Te bərk, Tña bərḫi, Selti bərk. – Hbr *bārak (inac. wa-yyibrak), Syr bᵊrak ‘s’agenouiller’; nSyr barik ‘être à genoux’; Ar baraka ‘s’accroupir, baraquer (chameau)’; Soq ʔebrek ʼfaire s’agenouillerʼ; Gz baraka, Amh bärräkä ‘baraquer’; Te bärkä, Tña boräha ‘s’agenouiller’; Amh tämbäräkkäkä ‘trembler, les genoux branlants’, ambaräkkäk ‘agenouillement’, bərəkrək alä ‘se soumettre’; Akk *birk- ‘giron’; Ar bark ‘poitrine’; Soq bérak ‘poitrine’; Gz burke ‘épaule, humérus’; ?Ar burk ‘sarcelle, canard’. -2 Ug Phoen Pun brk, Hbr berak, bērēk, EpigAram brk, JP bᵊrak, bārēk, Mnd brak, nSyr bāriḫ, Ar baraka, Tham brk, Sab brk, Soq bórik, Gz bāraka, Amh barräkä ‘bénir’; Ar burkaẗ ‘mouture abondante; salaire de meunier; prix du sang’. -3 Ug brk, EpigHbr brkh, BiblHbr bᵊrekā, Ar birkaẗ, Sab brkt, brk ‘étang, citerne’. -4 .... -5 Syr bārktā ‘armoise’; ?Ar birkān: plante (du Nejd). -6 Ar birak: poissons (de mer) -7 birkaẗ: sorte de manteau du Yémen. -8 ....
▪ BRK_1: Outside Sem, Borg2021#31 (b-r-k¹) compares Eg brk (LE) ‘knien (in Huldigung)’ (Wb I 466).
▪ BRK_2: Outside Sem, Borg2021#32 (b-r-k²) compares Eg brk/ba=ra=ka (NK) ‘beten zu; schenken; Geschenk, Gabe’; ‘bless in homage’ ~ bá-ra-ka ‘segnen’ (Wb I 466; Helck 1962: 557; Hoch 1994: 102).
▪ BRK_3: Outside Sem, Borg2021#33 (b-r-k³) compares Eg brk.t (LE) ‘Teich’; ‘pond, pool, lake’ (Wb I 466; DLE I 137) ~ Dem brkt/blkt/blgt ‘der Teich, der See’ (DG 119, 120) ~ Copt ⲃⲉⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ (Sa‘idic) (Vittmann 1996: 438).
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▪ Engl Baruch, broker, cherub ↗bāraka, ↗barakaẗ.

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barak- بَرَك , u

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√BRK

vb., I

to kneel down – WehrCowan1976

▪ from protSem *birk- ‘knee’ – DRS 2 (1994) #BRK-1.
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►barraka, vb. II, and ʔabraka, vb. IV, to make (the camel) kneel down: D- and *Š-stem., caus.

bārak‑ بارَكَ

√BRK

vb., III

1a to bless (fī or s.o., also li- or ʕalà), invoke a blessing on; b to give one’s blessing (to s.th.), sanction (s.th.) – WehrCowan1979.

▪ From WSem *√BRK ‘to bless’, probably a metathesized variant of *√KRB – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to bless’) Akk (krb (u)), Hbr (ints) brk, Syr (ints) brk, Gz (L-stem) brk.
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▪ Jeffery1938: »With this should be taken the forms barakāt (vii, 94; xi, 50, 76), and mubārak (iii, 90; vi, 92, 156, etc.). / The primitive verb baraka, which is not used in the Qurʔān, means ‘to kneel’, used specially of the camel, so that ʔabraka is the technical word for making a camel kneel. In this primitive sense it is common Sem […]. It was in the NSem area, however, that the root seems to have developed the sense of ‘to bless’, and from thence it passed to the SSem area. Thus we have Hbr bārak and Phoen brk ‘to bless’, Aram Syr bᵊraḵ ‘to bless or praise’, and in Palm such phrases as bryk šmw lʕlmʔ (de Vogüé, No. 94) ‘blessed be his name for evermore’, and ybrk (ibid., No. 144) ‘may he bless’. From this NSem sense we find derived the Sab brk (Rossini, Glossarium, 118), Eth [Gz] baraka ‘to bless, celebrate the praises of’, and Ar bāraka as above. Note also the formations Hbr bᵊrāḵāʰ, Aram birkā, Syr būrkᵊtā, which also were taken over into SSem, e.g. Eth [Gz] barakat, Ar barakaẗ.«
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl n.prop. Baruch, from Hbr bārûḵ ‘blessed’, PP of *bāraḵ ‘to bless’ (only attested in derived stem bērēḵ ‘to bless’, cf. Ar L-stem ↗bāraka ‘to bless’). – Engl broker, from Ar al-barkaẗ, colloquial variant of al- ↗barakaẗ ‘the blessing, divine favor, gift’, from Ar ↗bāraka ‘to bless’, (associative) L-stem, prob. borrowed from Hbr.

►^BP#4239tabāraka, vb. VI, to be blessed, be praised: tL-stem, self-ref. | tabāraka… God bless…
►^BP#1803mubārak, adj., blessed, fortunate, lucky: PP III

barakaẗ بَرَكَة

√BRK

n.f.

blessing, benediction – WehrCowan1979.

▪ From WSem *√BRK ‘to bless’, probably a metathesized variant of *√KRB – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BRK-1 .... -2 Ug Phoen Pun brk, Hbr berak, bērēk, EpigAram brk, JP bᵊrak, bārēk, Mnd brak, nSyr bāriḫ, Ar baraka, Tham brk, Sab brk, Soq bórik, Gz bāraka, Amh barräkä ‘bénir’; Ar burkaẗ ‘mouture abondante; salaire de meunier; prix du sang’. -3-8 ....
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021#32 (b-r-k²) compares Eg brk/ba=ra=ka (NK) ‘beten zu; schenken; Geschenk, Gabe’; ‘bless in homage’ ~ bá-ra-ka ‘segnen’ (Wb I 466; Helck 1962: 557; Hoch 1994: 102).
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▪ Cf. Jeffery1938 in entry ↗bāraka, section DISC.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl broker, from Ar al-barkaẗ, colloquial variant of al- ↗barakaẗ ‘the blessing, divine favor, gift’, from Ar ↗bāraka ‘to bless’, (associative) L-stem, prob. borrowed from Hbr.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl cherub, from Hbr kᵊrûb ‘cherub’, akin to Akk karābu ‘to praise, bless’, protSem root √*KRB with WSem metathesized variant √*BRK, cf. Ar barakaẗ.

►qillaẗ al-barakaẗ, misfortune, bad luck

►barraka, vb. II, to invoke a blessing (ʕalà or fī on s.th., li- on s.o.): D-stem., denom., caus.
►^BP#971bāraka, vb. III, to bless (fī or -h, s.o., also li‑ or ʕalà), 1 to invoke a blessing on; 2 to give one’s blessing (‑h to s.th.), sanction: L-stem, associative
►tabarraka, vb. V, 1 to be blessed (bi‑ by); 2 to enjoy, find pleasure, delight (bi‑ in); 3 to ask s.o.’s (bi‑) blessing: tD-stem, self-referential
►^BP#4239tabāraka, vb. VI, to be blessed, be praised: tL-stem, self-ref. | tabāraka… God bless…
►ĭstabraka, vb. X, to be blessed: *Št-stem, (orig.) desiderative

►ʔabrakᵘ, adj., more blessed: elat. formation
►tabrīk, pl. -āt, 1 good wish; 2 blessing, benediction: vn. II
►^BP#1535mabrūk, adj., blessed, happy: PP I
►^BP#1803mubārak, adj., blessed, fortunate, lucky: PP III

birkaẗ بِرْكة , pl. birak

√BRK

n.f.

pond, small lake; puddle, pool – WehrCowan1976

▪ ? Cf. Eg brk.t (LE) ‘pond, pool, lake’, Dem brkt / blkt / blgt ‘Teich, See’ (DG 119, 120), Copt ⲃⲉⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ (Sa‘idic) - Borg2021#33 (b-r-k³).
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BRK-1-2 .... -3 Ug brk, EpigHbr brkh, BiblHbr bᵊrekā, Ar birkaẗ, Sab brkt, brk ‘étang, citerne’. -4-8 ....
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021#33 (b-r-k³) compares Eg brk.t (LE) ‘Teich’; ‘pond, pool, lake’ (Wb I 466; DLE I 137) ~ Dem brkt/blkt/blgt ‘der Teich, der See’ (DG 119, 120) ~ Copt ⲃⲉⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ (Sa‘idic) (Vittmann 1996: 438).
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►birkaẗ al-sibāḥaẗ, n.f., swimming pool

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