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Arabic
Etymology
Uncertain. Not a Classical Arabic word. Possible etymologies:
From بَرُود(barūd, “a soothing collyrium (كُحْل(kuḥl)) used against inflammation of the eye; any powdery collyrium”), following common colloquial alteration between a and ā in words of the form CaCūC.
Via Aramaic from Armenianվառօդ(vaṙōd, “gunpowder”), composed of վառ(vaṙ, “burning”) + օդ(ōd, “air”). However, Ačaṙyan regards this as a folk-etymology reshaping of բարութ(barutʻ), which was ultimately borrowed from this very Arabic term.
From Medival Greek πύρωτον (pýrōton, “type of flammable chemical”), from Ancient Greekπυρίτηςλίθος(purítēs líthos, “stone of fire, flint”), the first part is an adjective πυρίτης(purítēs, “of or in fire”), from πῦρ(pûr, “fire”).
G. S. Colin (1960) “Bārūd”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, pages 1055–1057
Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 224a
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարութ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 428b