بربخ

See also: ترتح, ترتج, and تربح

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian بربر (barbar, “upon, above”) + خان (xân, “house”); originally denoting a drain that brought water from the house-top to the ground.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar.bax/

Noun

بَرْبَخ • (barbaḵ) m (plural بَرَابِخ (barābiḵ))

1. water pipe, drain, culvert, sewer pipe
2. epididymis

Declension

Declension of noun بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَرْبَخ barbaḵ	الْبَرْبَخ al-barbaḵ	بَرْبَخ barbaḵ
Nominative	بَرْبَخٌ barbaḵun	الْبَرْبَخُ al-barbaḵu	بَرْبَخُ barbaḵu
Accusative	بَرْبَخًا barbaḵan	الْبَرْبَخَ al-barbaḵa	بَرْبَخَ barbaḵa
Genitive	بَرْبَخٍ barbaḵin	الْبَرْبَخِ al-barbaḵi	بَرْبَخِ barbaḵi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَرْبَخَيْن barbaḵayn	الْبَرْبَخَيْن al-barbaḵayn	بَرْبَخَيْ barbaḵay
Nominative	بَرْبَخَانِ barbaḵāni	الْبَرْبَخَانِ al-barbaḵāni	بَرْبَخَا barbaḵā
Accusative	بَرْبَخَيْنِ barbaḵayni	الْبَرْبَخَيْنِ al-barbaḵayni	بَرْبَخَيْ barbaḵay
Genitive	بَرْبَخَيْنِ barbaḵayni	الْبَرْبَخَيْنِ al-barbaḵayni	بَرْبَخَيْ barbaḵay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَرَابِخ barābiḵ	الْبَرَابِخ al-barābiḵ	بَرَابِخ barābiḵ
Nominative	بَرَابِخُ barābiḵu	الْبَرَابِخُ al-barābiḵu	بَرَابِخُ barābiḵu
Accusative	بَرَابِخَ barābiḵa	الْبَرَابِخَ al-barābiḵa	بَرَابِخَ barābiḵa
Genitive	بَرَابِخَ barābiḵa	الْبَرَابِخِ al-barābiḵi	بَرَابِخِ barābiḵi

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 23
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “بربخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 102
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “بربخ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 179
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “بربخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 62
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بربخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 77