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بارك

Root: برك

Form: 3

Full Definition

باركIII He kept, or applied himself, constantly, or perseveringly, to it; namely, an affair, (TA in art. حفظ,) or commerce, or traffic, &c.

def.2 بارك ٱللّٰهُ فِيكَ, and لَكَ, and عَلَيْكَ, and بَارَكَكَ, Verbal.Noun مُبَارَكَةٌ, [God bless, beatify, felicitate, or prosper, thee;] God put in thee, give thee, make thee to possess, بَرَكَة [i. e. a blessing, good of any kind, prosperity or good fortune, increase, &c.]. بَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمِّدٍ وَ عَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ means Continue Thou, or perpetuate Thou, to Mohammad and to the family of Mohammad the eminence and honour which Thou hast given them: [or still bless or beatify, or continue to bless or beatify, Mohammad &c.: though it may well be rendered simply bless or beatify &c.:] Az says that it is from بَرَكَ said of a camel, meaning “he lay down upon his breast in a place and clave thereto.” And اَللّٰهُمَ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِى المَوْتِ, in another trad., means [O God, bless us] in the state to which death will bring us. The Arabs say to the beggar, بُورِكَ فِيكَ [Mayest thou be blest; and, in the present day, اَللّٰه يُبَارِك فِيك God bless thee]; meaning thereby to repel him; not to pray for him: and by reason of frequency of usage of this phrase, they have made بُورِك a noun: a poet [in Har شريش العدوى , in the TA Aboo-Fir'own,] says, تَظُنُّ أَنَّ بُورِكًا يَكْفِينِى إِذَا خَرَجْتُ بَاسِطًا يَمِينِى [She imagines that the saying “Mayest thou be blest” will suffice me when I go forth stretching out my right hand for an alms]. (Har p. 378. [This verse is differently cited in the TA; for there, instead of تظنّ and خرجت, we find تُحِبُّ and غَدَوْتُ.])
2 [You also say of a man, بارك فِيهِ, and لَهُ, &c., meaning He blessed him; i. e. he prayed God to bless him.]
3 See also 6.
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