فرخ

Arabic

Etymology

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 1

  • IPA(key): /farx/

Noun

فَرْخ (farḵ) m (plural فِرَاخ (firāḵ) or أَفْرَاخ (ʾafrāḵ) or فُرُوخ (furūḵ) or أَفْرُخ (ʾafruḵ))

  1. chick, young bird
  2. sprout (of a plant)
Declension

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /far.ra.xa/

Verb

فَرَّخَ (farraḵa) II, non-past يُفَرِّخُ‎ (yufarriḵu)

  1. to have chicks (of birds)
  2. to hatch, to incubate
  3. to germinate, to sprout
Conjugation

References

  • 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 (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 (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 (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 (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
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