barak

See also: Barak, barák, Barák, and bar-ak

Central Cagayan Agta

Noun

barak

1. piglet

Danish

Noun

barak

1. barrack

Declension

Declension of barak

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	barak	barakken	barakker	barakkerne
genitive	baraks	barakkens	barakkers	barakkernes

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

barak

1. piglet

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈrɑk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ba‧rak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

barak f (plural barakken, diminutive barakje n)

1. barracks (housing for (garrisoned) soldiers)
2. barrack (building used for housing in a (concentration) camp)
3. (Belgium) shed, shelter
4. barrack (any relatively primitive temporary building, especially used for housing)
5. (historical) field hospital
6. (historical) temporary building to house, treat or isolate patients of contagious diseases, especially cholera

Synonyms

• (shed): schuur, tuinhuis

Derived terms

• barakkendorp
• cholerabarak
• kampbarak
• officiersbarak
• praatbarak
• soldatenbarak

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: barag, mbarag
• → Indonesian: barak
• → Papiamentu: barak

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch barak, from French baraque, from Spanish barraca, from Catalan barraca, diminutive of barra (“clay, mud”), from Vulgar Latin *barrum, probably ultimately from Celtiberian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɹak̚]
• Hyphenation: ba‧rak

Noun

barak (plural barak-barak)

1. barracks
2. shed
3. (healthcare, medicine, rare) ward

   Synonyms: bangsal, paviliun, sal

Alternative forms

• bérék (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Synonyms

• (ward): wad (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• membarak

Further reading

• “barak”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French baraque. Doublet of borak. Compare Slovincian baraka.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.rak/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Kielce) IPA^(key): [ˈba.rak]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arak
• Syllabification: ba‧rak

Noun

barak m inan (diminutive baraczek)

1. barrack, shack, shanty (simple, 1-story, usually temporary structure)
2. (Kielce, Brzezinki) thick bush

   Hypernym: krzak

3. (Kielce, Brzezinki) house near a forest

   Hypernym: dom

Declension

Declension of barak

	singular	plural
nominative	barak	baraki
genitive	baraku	baraków
dative	barakowi	barakom
accusative	barak	baraki
instrumental	barakiem	barakami
locative	baraku	barakach
vocative	baraku	baraki

Derived terms

adjective

• barakowy

nouns

• barakowóz
• najweselszy barak w obozie

Descendants

• → Kashubian: barak

Further reading

• barak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• barak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Siarkowski (1878), “baraki”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 244

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic [Term?] (“barak”), from Middle Persian pārag (“piece”). Cognate to Uzbek chuchvara.

Noun

barak

1. dumpling