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فرخ

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Arabic

Etymology 1.1

From the root ف ر خ (f r ḵ). Cognate with Hebrew פֶּרַח (péraḥ, flower) and פָּרַח (pāraḥ, to bloom), Aramaic פְּרַח, ܦܪܰܚ (pəraḥ, to fly), Ge'ez ፈርኅ (färḫ, chick), ፈርኀ (färḫä, to sprout, to germinate), Akkadian 𒉺𒊏𒄷 (/⁠parāḫu⁠/, to sprout, to germinate).

Pronunciation

Noun

فَرْخ (farḵ) m (plural فِرَاخ (firāḵ) or أَفْرَاخ (ʔafrāḵ) or فُرُوخ (furūḵ) or أَفْرُخ (ʔafruḵ))

  1. chick, young bird
  2. sprout (of a plant)
Declension
More information singular, basic singular triptote ...
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: فَرْخَة (hen)
  • Maltese: ferħ
  • Khalaj: fərik
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: ferx
    Central Kurdish: فەرخ (ferx)

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

Verb

فَرَّخَ (farraḵa) II (non-past يُفَرِّخُ (yufarriḵu), verbal noun تَفْرِيخ (tafrīḵ))

  1. to have chicks (of birds)
  2. to hatch, to incubate
  3. to germinate, to sprout
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

References

  • prḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1898), “Zum sporadischen Lautwandel in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), volume 3, →DOI, page 72
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “فرخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “فرخ”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 564
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 166
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928), Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 324
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “فرخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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Khalaj

Noun

فَرِخ (fərik) (definite accusative فَرِخی, plural فَرِخلَر)

  1. Arabic spelling of fərik (chicken, chick)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (plhw' /⁠farrox⁠/), 𐫛𐫡𐫇𐫑 (prwk̇ /⁠farrox⁠/), from Old Median *farnahvāh, from Proto-Iranian *húHarnahwāh. According to folk etymology, فر (far, royal splendor) + رخ (rux / rox, face).

Pronunciation

 

More information Readings, Classical reading? ...

Adjective

فَرُّخ (farrux / farrox) (Tajik spelling фаррух)

  1. auspicious, fortunate
  2. splendid, beautiful
    • 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 13:
      زنده است نام فرخ نوشیروان بعدل
      گر چه بسی گذشت که نوشین روان نماند
      zinda ast nām-i farrux-i nōšīrwān ba adl
      gar či basē guḏašt ki nōšēn rawān na-mānd
      Noshirvan's splendid name still lives for justice,
      Even though so much time has passed since his sweet soul ceased to exist.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

Derived terms

  • فرخی (farruxī / farroxi)
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