barak

barak

1. piglet

barak

1. barrack

barak

1. piglet

Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca.

• IPA^(key): /baːˈrɑk/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧rak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

barak f (plural barakken, diminutive barakje n)

1. barracks (housing for (garrisoned) soldiers)
2. barrack (building used for housing in a (concentration) camp)
3. (Belgium) shed, shelter
4. barrack (any relatively primitive temporary building, especially used for housing)
5. (historical) field hospital
6. (historical) temporary building to house, treat or isolate patients of contagious diseases, especially cholera

• (shed): schuur, tuinhuis

• → Caribbean Javanese: barag, mbarag
• → Indonesian: barak
• → Papiamentu: barak

From Dutch barak, from French baraque, from Spanish barraca, from Catalan barraca, diminutive of barra (“clay, mud”), from Vulgar Latin *barrum, probably ultimately from Celtiberian.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɹak̚]
• Hyphenation: ba‧rak

barak (plural barak-barak)

1. barracks
2. shed
3. (healthcare, medicine, rare) ward

   Synonyms: bangsal, paviliun, sal

• bérék (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• (ward): wad (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “barak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French baraque. Doublet of borak. Compare Slovincian baraka.

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• Rhymes: -arak
• Syllabification: ba‧rak

barak m inan (diminutive baraczek)

1. barrack, shack, shanty (simple, 1-story, usually temporary structure)
2. (Kielce, Brzezinki) thick bush

   Hypernym: krzak

3. (Kielce, Brzezinki) house near a forest

   Hypernym: dom

• → Kashubian: barak

• barak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• barak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “baraki”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 244

From Arabic [Term?] (“barak”), from Middle Persian pārag (“piece”). Cognate to Uzbek chuchvara.

barak

1. dumpling