Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Not a Classical Arabic word. Possible etymologies:

  • From بَرُود (barūd, a soothing collyrium (كُحْل (kuḥl)) used against inflammation of the eye; any powdery collyrium), following common colloquial alteration between a and ā in words of the form CaCūC.
  • Via Aramaic from Armenian վառօդ (vaṙōd, gunpowder), composed of վառ (vaṙ, burning) + օդ (ōd, air). However, Ačaṙyan regards this as a folk-etymology reshaping of բարութ (barutʻ), which was ultimately borrowed from this very Arabic term.

Noun edit

بَارُود (bārūdm (uncountable)

  1. saltpetre
  2. gunpowder

Declension edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • G. S. Colin (1960) “Bārūd”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, pages 1055–1057
  • Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 224a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարութ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 428b

Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

بارود (bârud)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of باروت

Descendants edit

Urdu edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic بَارُود (bārūd). Doublet of باروت (bārot).

Noun edit

بارود (bārūdf (Hindi spelling बारूद)

  1. gunpowder