برأ

See also: برا

Arabic

Etymology

It is grouped at the root ب ر ء (b-r-ʔ), but borrowed from Classical Syriac ܒܪܳܐ (braʾ, “to create”). In Syriac the same root is more widespread and gives the word for “son”, whereas in Arabic it is exotic – the verb appears in the Qurʾān in its finite form only in 57:22, else three times in the active participle form, even though the Qurʾānic God is continuously creating.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ra.ʔa/

Verb

1. to create, to bring into being
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 57:22:

     مَا أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي أَنْفُسِكُمْ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مِّن قَبْلِ أَن نَّبْرَأَهَا

     mā ʔaṣāba min muṣībatin fī l-ʔarḍi walā fī ʔanfusikum ʔillā fī kitābin min qabli ʔan nabraʔahā

     No disaster strikes upon the earth or among yourselves except that it is in a register before we bring it into being.

   Synonyms: خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa), فَطَرَ (faṭara), أَوْجَدَ (ʔawjada)

Verb

بَرَّأَ • (barraʔa) II (non-past يُبَرِّئُ (yubarriʔu), verbal noun تَبْرِيء (tabrīʔ))

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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:69:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَكُونُوا كَٱلَّذِينَ آذَوْا مُوسَى فَبَرَّأَهُ ٱللَّهُ مِمَّا قَالُوا

     yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lā takūnū kallaḏīna ʔāḏaw mūsā fabarraʔahu l-lahu mimmā qālū

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• بَرِيَّة f (bariyya, “creatures”)

References

• Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 84, page 20
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 75–76
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 49
• Schwally, Friedrich (1899) “Lexikalische Studien. (Fortsetzung.)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 53, page 201