فرخ

Arabic

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /farx/

Noun

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

  1. chick, young bird
  2. sprout (of a plant)
Declension
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: فَرْخَة (hen)
  • Maltese: ferħ
  • Khalaj: fərik
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: ferx
    Central Kurdish: فەرخ (ferx)

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /far.ra.xa/

Verb

فَرَّخَ • (farraḵa) II, non-past يُفَرِّخُ‎ (yufarriḵu)

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

References

  • 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 Cie, 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

Khalaj

Noun

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

  1. Arabic spelling of fərik (chicken, chick)

Declension

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [fär.rʊ́x]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [fär.rʊ́x]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [fär.rúx]

Readings
Classical reading? farrux
Dari reading? farrux
Iranian reading? farrox
Tajik reading? farrux

Adjective

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)

Derived terms

  • فرخی (farroxi)
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