baraka

baraka

1. head

• Summer Institute of Linguistics Language Survey of Abu (1975), quoted on transnewguinea.org
• 1998, Otto Ignatius M. S. Nekitel, Voices of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Language, Culture and Identity, →ISBN, page 244:

  [...]demonstrates the range of body parts' terms that Abu' use idiomatically:

  1. baraka 'head'; 2. naif 'eyes'; 3. naleh 'teeth'; 4. mutu 'nose'; 5. ahaka 'tongue/voice'; 6. elhuka 'neck', 7. numunas 'chest', 8. lakuh 'hands', [...]

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁa.ka/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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baraka f (uncountable)

1. barakah
2. benediction
3. chance, fate

• “baraka”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

baraka

1. soot

• IPA^(key): /bā.ɾā.kā/

baraka (plural barakazhì)

1. waterbuck

Borrowed from German Baracke.

• IPA^(key): /barǎka/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra‧ka

baràka f (Cyrillic spelling бара̀ка)

1. shack, hut

• “baraka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Borrowed from German Baracke. Compare Kashubian barak and Polish barak.

• IPA^(key): /baˈra.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ra‧ka

baraka f

1. shack, barrack

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “barãkă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 15

• baraca

From Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka, “blessing”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈɾaka/ [baˈɾa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ra‧ka

baraka f (plural barakas)

1. good fortune

• “baraka”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka, “blessing”).^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

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baraka class IX (plural baraka class X)

1. blessing

   Haraka haraka, haina baraka — Swahili proverb

   "[When done] very quickly, there is no blessing."

• -bariki (“to bless”)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈɾaka/ [bɐˈɾaː.xɐ]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ra‧ka

Borrowed from Spanish barraca.

baraka (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇᜃ)

1. market; marketplace

   Synonyms: palengke, pamilihan, merkado

2. market day
3. barracks

   Synonym: kuwartel

• himpilan
• talipapa

Feminine form of barako.

baraka (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇᜃ)

1. (colloquial, figurative) manly woman; macho woman

• abarka

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باراقه (baraka, “barrack; shed, booth, shack”), from Italian baracca (“hut, hovel”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɾaˈka/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra‧ka

baraka (definite accusative barakayı, plural barakalar)

1. barrack, a makeshift structure made of lightweight material, such as wood or corrugated iron

• “baraka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “baraka”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “baraka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 465
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “baraka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük