ܡܒܪܟ

From Aramaic בְּרַךְ (bəraḵ), from Proto-Semitic; cognate with Arabic بَارَكَ (bāraka) and Hebrew בֵּרַךְ (berákh) and Amharic ባረከ (baräkä).

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ܡܒܲܪܸܟ݂ • (mbarriḵ)

1. (transitive) to bless, to hallow

   ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ ܡܒܲܪܸܟ݂ ܠܘܼܟ݂ ܘܒܲܝܬܘܼܬܘܼܟ݂.

   allāhā mbarriḵ lūḵ w-baytūtūḵ.

   God bless you and your family.

   • Romans 12:14:

     ܡܒܲܪܟ݂ܘܼܢ ܠܐܵܢܝܼ ܕܡܟܲܡܪܝܼ ܠܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ، ܡܒܲܪܟ݂ܘܼܢ ܘܠܵܐ ܠܵܝܛܝܼܬܘܿܢ.

     mbarḵūn l-ānī dmkamrī lāwḵōn, mbarḵūn w-lā lāyṭītōn.

     Bless those who persecute you; bless and curse not.

   • Hebrews 6:14:

     ܒܹܐ݇ܡܵܪܵܐ: ”ܫܲܪܝܼܪܵܐܝܼܬ ܡܒܲܪܘܼܟ݂ܹܐ، ܒܸܬ ܡܒܲܪܟ݂ܸܢ ܠܘܼܟ݂؛ ܘܡܵܘܣܘܼܦܹܐ، ܒܸܬ ܡܵܘܣܦܸܢ ܠܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ“.

     bēmārā: “šarīrāˀīt mbarūḵē, bit mbarḵin lūḵ; w-māwsūpē, bit māwspin lāwḵōn”.

     saying, “Surely blessing, I will bless you; and multiplying, I will multiply you.”

2. (of a priest) to marry, to perform a marriage ceremony
3. (Alqosh) to give in marriage
4. to congratulate
5. to greet, visit

• (passive) see → ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ (brīḵā)

• “ܒܵܪܸܟ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2021 July 3 (last accessed)
• “ܒܵܪܸܟ݂”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2021 January 1 (last accessed)
• Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܒܵܪܸܟ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 39b
• Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܒܵܪܸܟ݂”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 154b