برك

Derived from Proto-Semitic *birk-, *bark- (“knee”) (ب ر ك‎ (b-r-k)). Compare رُكْبَة‎ (rukba, “knee”), from the variant root.

بَرَكَ • (baraka) I, non-past يَبْرُكُ‎‎ (yabruku)

1. to kneel down

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• Maltese: birek

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “برك”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

For meaning "make kneel", causative of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). For meaning "invoke a blessing", denominal verb from بَرَكَة‎ (baraka, “blessing”).

بَرَّكَ • (barraka) II, non-past يُبَرِّكُ‎‎ (yubarriku)

1. to make kneel
2. to invoke a blessing

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• أبرك‎
• بركَة‎
• تبريك‎
• مبارك‎

From Proto-Semitic *birk- (“knee”).

برك (bɛrk) m (dual بركي‎ (bɛ́rki), plural بيرك‎ (bírok))

1. knee

• Naumkin, Vitaly; et al. (2014), “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 519