فرخ

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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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

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Noun

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

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

Etymology 1.2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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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
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References

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  • 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[1] (in German), volume 3, 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[2] (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[3] (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[4] (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

Khalaj

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Noun

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

  1. Arabic spelling of fərik (chicken, chick)

Declension

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Persian

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Etymology

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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 (farr, royal splendor) +‎ رخ (rox, face).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? farrux
Dari reading? farrux
Iranian reading? farrox
Tajik reading? farrux

Adjective

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فرخ (farrox)

  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

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