باروت

Ottoman Turkish

باروت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَارُود (bārūd, “saltpetre; gunpowder”).

Noun

باروت • (barut)

1. gunpowder, an explosive mixture of saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur, formerly used in gunnery

Derived terms

• باروت كسلمك (barut kesilmek, “to get in a great rage”)
• باروت وزنه‌سی (barut veznesi, “powder flask”)
• باروتجی (barutcu, “powdermaker”)
• باروتخانه (baruthane, “powder-mill”)

Descendants

• Turkish: barut
• → Albanian: barut
• → Armenian: բարութ (barutʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: barıt
• → Bulgarian: барут (barut)
• → Greek: μπαρούτι (baroúti)
• → Macedonian: барут (barut)
• → Persian: باروت (bârut), بارود (bârud), باروط (bârut), بارو (bâru)
  • → Hindi: बारूत (bārūt)
  • → Kurdish:
  • → Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: barût

    Central Kurdish: بارووت (barût), باڕووت (barrût)

    Southern Kurdish: بارۊت (barüt)

  • → Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਤ (bārūt)
  • → Urdu: باروت (bārūt)
• → Romanian: barut
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: барут

  Latin script: barut

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “barut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 473
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باروت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 100b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باروت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 237
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvis pyrius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1407
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باروت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 648
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “barut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باروت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321

Persian

Alternative forms

• بارود (bârud)
• باروط (bârut)
• بارو (bâru)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باروت (bârut), from Persian بارود (bârud), from Arabic بارود (bārūd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒːˈɾuːt/

Noun

باروت • (bârut)

1. saltpetre

   Synonym: شوره (šure)

2. gunpowder

Synonyms

• (gunpowder): دارو (dâru) (archaic), داروی تفنگ (dâru-ye tofang) (archaic), گندک (gandak) (archaic), یمسو (yamsu) (archaic)

Descendants

• → Hindi: बारूत (bārūt)
• → Kurdish:
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: barût

  Central Kurdish: بارووت (barût), باڕووت (barrût)

  Southern Kurdish: بارۊت (barüt)

• → Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਤ (bārūt)
• → Urdu: باروت (bārūt)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “باروت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• G. S. Colin, "Bārūd", Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 1, A-B, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986, →ISBN, pages 1055–1057

Urdu

Alternative forms

• بارود (bārūd)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian باروت (bārūt), from Ottoman Turkish باروت (bârut), from Arabic بارود (bārūd). Doublet of بارود (bārūd).

Noun

باروت • (bārūt) f (Hindi spelling बारूत)

1. gunpowder

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu باروت (bārūt).

Noun

بارُوت (bārut)

1. gunpowder