فرخ

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”).

• IPA^(key): /farx/

فَرْخ • (farḵ) m (plural فِرَاخ (firāḵ) or أَفْرَاخ (ʔafrāḵ) or فُرُوخ (furūḵ) or أَفْرُخ (ʔafruḵ))

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

• Egyptian Arabic: فَرْخَة (hen)
• Maltese: ferħ
• → Khalaj: fərik
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: ferx

  → Central Kurdish: فەرخ (ferx)

• IPA^(key): /far.ra.xa/

فَرَّخَ • (farraḵa) II (non-past يُفَرِّخُ (yufarriḵu), verbal noun تَفْرِيخ (tafrīḵ))

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

• “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 C^ie, 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

فَرِخ (fərik) (definite accusative فَرِخی, plural فَرِخلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of fərik (“chicken, chick”)

Inherited from Middle Persian (plhw' /⁠farrox⁠/), 𐫛𐫡𐫇𐫑 (prwk̇ /⁠farrox⁠/), from Old Median *farnahvāh, from Proto-Iranian *húHarnahwāh. According to folk etymology, فر (farr, “royal splendor”) +‎ رخ (rox, “face”).

فرخ • (farrox)

1. auspicious, fortunate
2. splendid, beautiful
   • 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 13:

     زنده است نام فرخ نوشیروان بعدل
     گر چه بسی گذشت که نوشین روان نماند

     zinda ast nām-i farrux-i nōšīrwān ba adl
     gar či basē guḏašt ki nōšēn rawān na-mānd

     Noshirvan's splendid name still lives for justice,
     Even though so much time has passed since his sweet soul ceased to exist.

     (Classical Persian romanization)