Words Arabic Took In
barnāma
البَرْنامَج
barnāmaj
Barnāmaj is Persian barnāma: a sheet listing a merchant's goods. Malik's Muwatta' already speaks of 'selling by the barnāmaj'. Scholars of hadith then used it for the list of their teachers and the chains of their books, especially in the Maghrib and al-Andalus.
- Came
- From Persian
- Original meaning
- an account-book
- Meaning in Arabic
- a ledger of goods; then a scholar's list of teachers
«البارْنامَجُ فارسيّة، وهي اسمُ النسخة التي فيها مقدارُ المبعوث، وعن شيخنا أنّ النسخة التي يكتب فيها المحدّثُ أسماءَ رواته وأسانيدَ كتبه المسموعة تُسمّى بذلك.»
English programme comes from Greek programma; the dictionaries record no link with barnāmaj (American Heritage Dictionary, Addai Sher, Steingass). Only Wiktionary suggests the Persian sense may have been influenced by the Greek.
Qadi 'Iyad, in Mashariq al-Anwar, calls it 'a Persian word: the list naming merchants' goods'.
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