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āb-rēz

الإبْريق

ibrīq

Ibrīq, 'ewer', is Persian āb-rēz, 'water-pourer', in Arabic before Islam. Al-Jawaliqi explains it as 'the water's path' or 'pouring water gently'. From Arabic it went into Turkish as ibrik. Addai Sher also derived French broc and Italian brocca from it.

Came
From Persian
Original meaning
water-pourer
Meaning in Arabic
a ewer
«و«الإبريق»: فارسيٌّ معرّب، وترجمتُه من الفارسيّة أحدُ شيئين: إمّا أن يكون طريقَ الماء، أو صبَّ الماء على هِينة. وقد تكلّمت به العربُ قديمًا، قال عديُّ بن زيد العِباديّ: ودعا بالصَّبوح يومًا فجاءت … قَينةٌ في يمينها إبريقُ»
al-Jawaliqi (d. 1144), al-Mu'arrab, ed. Ahmad Shakir, p. 23
The path between languagesāb-rēz → ibrīq → ibrik

More on this word

A Qur'anic word (56:18). On Qur'anic words of foreign origin there are two views; Abu 'Ubayd's reconciliation is on the firdaws page.

Larousse rejects Addai Sher's derivation: it takes broc from Old Provençal, from Greek or Latin, with no Arabic.

English ibrik, a long-spouted brass pitcher, came from Turkish; only Wiktionary records this step.

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