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Baraka

noun
1.
United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).  Synonyms: Imamu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones.






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... jok or jog, the Dutch juk, the Swedes ok. The Sanscrit is juga. The Arabic sanna, to be old, reappears in the Latin senex, the Welsh hen, and our senile. The Hebrew banah, to build, is the Irish bun, foundation, and the Latin fundo, fundare, to found. The Arabic baraka, to bend the knee, to fall on the breast, is probably the Saxon brecau, the Danish braekke, the Swedish braecka, Welsh bregu, and our word to break. The Arabic baraka also signifies to rain violently; and from this we get the Saxon ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly



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