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تبرک

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic تَبَرُّك (tabarruk).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? tabarruk
    Dari reading? tabarruk
    Iranian reading? tabarrok
    Tajik reading? tabarruk

    Noun

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    تبرک (tabarrok)

    1. blessing, good omen
    2. gift or souvenir considered to bring good luck

    Further reading

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    Urdu

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Classical Persian تَبَرُّک (tabarruk), borrowed from Arabic تَبَرُّك (tabarruk), from تَبَرَّكَ (tabarraka).[1][2] First attested in 1682 as Middle Hindi تبرک (tbrk /⁠tabarruk⁠/).[3]

      Pronunciation

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      Noun

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      تَبَرُّک (tabarrukm (formal plural تَبَرُّکات (tabarrukāt), Hindi spelling तबर्रुक) (religion)

      1. blessed gift; sacred relic (touched or blessed by a saint)
        Synonym: پَرْسَاد (parsād)
      2. (dated) a blessed relic or gift (see بَرْکَت (barkat, blessing))

      Declension

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      Informal:

      Declension of تبرک
      singular plural
      direct تَبَرُّک (tabarruk) تَبَرُّک (tabarruk)
      oblique تَبَرُّک (tabarruk) تَبَرُّکوں (tabarrukõ)
      vocative تَبَرُّک (tabarruk) تَبَرُّکو (tabarruko)
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      References

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      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884), “تبرك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 308
      2. ^ John Shakespear (1834), “تبرک”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 490
      3. ^ تبرک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

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      • تبرک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “تبرک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
      • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “تبرک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 404