بارود

Arabic

Etymology

Uncertain. Not a Classical Arabic word. Possible etymologies:

• From بَرُود (barūd, “a soothing collyrium (كُحْل (kuḥl)) used against inflammation of the eye; any powdery collyrium”), following common colloquial alteration between a and ā in words of the form CaCūC.
• Via Aramaic from Armenian վառօդ (vaṙōd, “gunpowder”), composed of վառ (vaṙ, “burning”) + օդ (ōd, “air”). However, Ačaṙyan regards this as a folk-etymology reshaping of բարութ (barutʻ), which was ultimately borrowed from this very Arabic term.
• From Medival Greek πύρωτον (pýrōton, “type of flammable chemical”), from Ancient Greek πυρίτης λίθος (purítēs líthos, “stone of fire, flint”), the first part is an adjective πυρίτης (purítēs, “of or in fire”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

Noun

بَارُود • (bārūd) m (uncountable)

1. saltpetre
2. gunpowder

Declension

Declension of noun بَارُود (bārūd)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَارُود bārūd	الْبَارُود al-bārūd	بَارُود bārūd
Nominative	بَارُودٌ bārūdun	الْبَارُودُ al-bārūdu	بَارُودُ bārūdu
Accusative	بَارُودًا bārūdan	الْبَارُودَ al-bārūda	بَارُودَ bārūda
Genitive	بَارُودٍ bārūdin	الْبَارُودِ al-bārūdi	بَارُودِ bārūdi

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: باروت (barut)
  • Turkish: barut
  • → Albanian: barut
  • → Armenian: բարութ (barutʻ)
  • → Azerbaijani: barıt
  • → Bulgarian: барут (barut)
  • → Greek: μπαρούτι (baroúti)
  • → Macedonian: барут (barut)
  • → Persian: باروت (bârut), بارود (bârud), باروط (bârut), بارو (bâru)
    • → Hindi: बारूत (bārūt)
    • → Kurdish:
    • → Kurdish:

      Northern Kurdish: barût

      Central Kurdish: بارووت (barût), باڕووت (barrût)

      Southern Kurdish: بارۊت (barüt)

    • → Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਤ (bārūt)
    • → Urdu: باروت (bārūt)
  • → Romanian: barut
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: барут

    Latin script: barut

• → Persian: بارود (bârud)
  • → Aramaic:

    Syriac script: ܒܐܪܘܕ (bārūḏ).

  • → Bengali: বারুদ (barud)
  • → Hindi: बारूद (bārūd)
  • → Nepali: बारूद (bārūd)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਬਾਰੂਦ (bārūd)

    Shahmukhi script: بارود (bārūd)

  • → Urdu: بارود (bārūd)

References

• G. S. Colin (1960) “Bārūd”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, pages 1055–1057
• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 224a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարութ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 428b

Persian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒːˈɾuːd/

Noun

بارود • (bârud)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of باروت

Descendants

• → Aramaic:

  Syriac script: ܒܐܪܘܕ (bārūḏ).

• → Bengali: বারুদ (barud)
• → Hindi: बारूद (bārūd)
• → Nepali: बारूद (bārūd)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਾਰੂਦ (bārūd)

  Shahmukhi script: بارود (bārūd)

• → Urdu: بارود (bārūd)

Urdu

Alternative forms

• باروت (bārūt)

Etymology

From Arabic بَارُود (bārūd). Doublet of باروت (bārot).

Noun

بارود • (bārūd) f (Hindi spelling बारूद)

1. gunpowder