بريد

See also: تزيد, تريد, پریڈ, تربد, يربد, يريد, and يزيد

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.riːd/

Etymology 1

Already in the 6th century, from Byzantine Greek βέρηδος (bérēdos), βέρεδος (béredos, post-horse), from Latin verēdus.

Noun

بَرِيد • (barīd) m (plural بُرُد (burud)) (in verse also بُرْد (burd))

  1. post, mail, an institution to send messages, intelligence
  2. (archaic) messenger, courier, express, estafette, a person employed in the institution of mail or intelligence
    Synonyms: رَسُول (rasūl), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), فَيْج (fayj), فُرَانِق (furāniq)
  3. (obsolete) the beast by which messages are sent by the mail institution, a post-horse, post-mule or post-camel
  4. (obsolete) a measure of distance, a postal route
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 37, line 9:
      فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميال
      About the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.
  5. (obsolete, rare) post office, a stationed relay
Declension
Derived terms
  • سَاعِي بَرِيدٍ (sāʕī barīdin, postman)
  • بَرِيدِيّ (barīdiyy, postal; postmaster; courier)
  • أَبْرَدَ (ʔabrada, to sent onto the way as a courier; to send a courier to; to send by way of post)

References

Etymology 2

Apparently from بَرَدَ (barada, to cut off).

Noun

بَرِيد • (barīd) m

  1. crumb, piece of bread eaten to a stew for volume
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume I, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 316 Nr. 468:
      وقولون البَرِيدُ لخبز يلقى عليه الماء تَطْعَمُةُ النِّسَاءُ لِلسُّمْنَةِ. والصّوَاب الْمَبْرُودُ.
      They call barīd the bread thrown into the water the women eat for volume. The right is mabrūd.
Declension

Pashto

Noun

بريد • (brid) m

  1. attack, assault
  2. beginning, starting point, access

See also

  • برید کول (to attack)

Noun

بريد • (buríd) m

  1. separation
  2. absence
  3. border
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