برج

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), from Middle Persian (burg), or from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

• IPA^(key): /burd͡ʒ/

بُرْج • (burj) m (dual بُرْجَان (burjān), plural بُرُوج (burūj) or أَبْرَاج (ʔabrāj))

1. castle
2. citadel
3. tower

   بُرْج خَلِيفَة ― burj ḵalīfa ― Burj Khalifa (literally, “Khalifa Tower”)

4. constellation
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:61:

     تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَاجًا وَقَمَرًا مُنِيرًا

     tabāraka llaḏī jaʕala fī s-samāʔi burūjan wajaʕala fīhā sirājan waqamaran munīran

     Blessed is He who has placed in the sky great stars and placed therein a lamp and luminous moon.

5. spire
6. asterism
7. zodiac
8. sign of the zodiac

• حِصْن (ḥiṣn)
• قَلْعَة (qalʕa), قِلْعَة (qilʕa)
• مَعْقِل (maʕqil)

• IPA^(key): /ba.ri.d͡ʒa/

بَرِجَ • (barija) I (non-past يَبْرَجُ (yabraju), verbal noun بَرَج (baraj)) (obsolete)

1. to be or become apparent, manifest or conspicuous, and high or elevated
2. to have large, beautiful eyes where the white entirely surrounds the black
3. to become ample in respect of eating and drinking (of one's condition)

• IPA^(key): /ba.rad͡ʒ/

بَرَج • (baraj) m

1. verbal noun of بَرِجَ (barija) (form I)

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “برج”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 118
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “برج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 64b
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “برج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 103
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “برج”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 105–106
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “برج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 180
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “برج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 63

برج (bürc)

1. Alternative spelling of بۆرج

• بورج (burc)

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْج (burj), from Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), with cognates including Persian برز (borz), Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhát, “lofty, high, tall”), Old Armenian բարձր (barjr, “high”) and Old English burg.

بِرج (birc)

1. tower
2. zodiac

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْج (burj), from Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

برج • (burc) (plural بروج or ابراج)

1. tower of a castle, bastion

   Synonym: قله (kulle)

2. (astronomy) constellation of the zodiac
3. (astrology) zodiac sign

• Turkish: burç

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 700
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 260
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Moenia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1066
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 755
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “burç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 353

Borrowed from Persian برج.

• IPA^(key): /brad͡ʒ/

برج • (braj) m (plural برجونه (brajuna))

1. tower

Arabicized form of Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), possibly from Middle Persian (burg), or from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), with cognates including Persian برز (borz), Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhát, “lofty, high, tall”), Old Armenian բարձր (barjr, “high”) and Old English burg.

برج • (borj) (plural برج‌ها (borj-hâ) or بروج)

1. steeple
2. tower

   برج آزادی

   borj-e âzâdi

   Azadi Tower

3. pylon
4. column
5. peel, keep
6. fort, castle
7. pinnacle
8. dovecote
9. star
10. constellation
11. zodiac
12. sign of the zodiac

• برجی (borji)

• → Hindi: बुर्ज (burj)

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْج (burj), from Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

بُرج • (burj) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਬੁਰਜ)

1. bastion
2. tower
3. turret
4. constellation
5. sign of the zodiac

From Arabic بُرْج (burj).

• IPA^(key): /burʒ/,

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برج • (burj) m (plural أبراج (ʔabrāj))

1. tower
2. zodiac sign

Signs of the Zodiac · الأبراج (il-ʔabrāj)
الحمل (il-ḥamal, “Aries”)	التور (it-tōr, “Taurus”)	الجوزاء (il-jōzāʔ, “Gemini”)	السرطان (is-saraṭān, “Cancer”)
الأسد (il-ʔasad, “Leo”)	العذراء (il-ʕazrāʔ, “Virgo”)	الميزان (il-mīzān, “Libra”)	العقرب (il-ʕaqrab, “Scorpio”)
القوس (il-ʔōs, “Sagittarius”)	الجدي (il-jidi, “Capricorn”)	الدلو (id-dalu, “Aquarius”)	الحوت (il-ḥūt, “Pisces”)

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْج (burj), from Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (burgāʾ), possibly from Middle Persian (burg), or from Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), with cognates including Persian برز (borz), Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhát, “lofty, high, tall”), Old Armenian բարձր (barjr, “high”) and Old English burg.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʊɾd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ʊɾd͡ʒ

برج • (burj) m (Hindi spelling बुर्ज)

1. bastion
2. tower
3. turret
4. constellation
5. sign of the zodiac