باریک

See also: تازیک and تاریک

Persian

Alternative forms

• بارک (bârik)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian bʾlyk (bārīg/k, “thin, fine subtle”). Akin to Old Armenian բարակ (barak), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒːɾiːk/

Adjective

باریک • (bârik) (comparative باریک‌تَر (bârik-tar), superlative باریک‌تَرین (bârik-tarin))

1. thin
2. narrow

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “باریك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարակ”, 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 418a
• Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “պարիյք”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 414b
• Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “պարիք”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 414b
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bārīg/k”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 17