بربخ

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Persian بربر (barbar, upon, above) + خان (xân, house); originally denoting a drain that brought water from the house-top to the ground.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَرْبَخ (barbaḵm (plural بَرَابِخ (barābiḵ))

  1. water pipe, drain, culvert, sewer pipe
  2. epididymis

Declension

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References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 23
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بربخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 102
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بربخ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 179
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “بربخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 62
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بربخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 77