Baraka
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Baraka may refer to:
- baraka, also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
- baraka, also barakah, in Islam and Arab-influenced languages, meaning spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God
- "Baraka", a rarely used French slang term for luck, derived from the Arabic word
- Baraka, aka Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits
- Baraka, the Serbian and Bulgarian word for "shack"
- barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves
- Baraka, the Turkish word for "barracks"
- Baraka, means 'Blessing' in Kiswahili
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[edit] Media
- Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke
- Baraka (novel) is a 1983 novel written by Canadian John Ralston Saul
- Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character
- The Boys of Baraka, a 2005 documentary film
- Baraka 5b, a novel by Croatian Miroslav Krleža
- Baraka (song) Written and performed by Sound Tribe Sector 9
- Baraka Foundation (band)
- Baraka Records[1], an Oxford-based trance party
- BARAKA World Music band based in the UK
- [2] Baraka Streaming Technologies.
[edit] Places
- Baraka, DRC, a village in the eastern Congolese province of Sud-Kivu on Lake Tanganyika.
- Baraka, Gabon, a site where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842 on what is now Libreville
- Baraka, Philippines, a barangay in the Norzagaray municipality, in the province of Bulacan
- "Baraka", the local nickname for Barakaldo, Spain
- Baraka College, a college for sustainable agriculture and rural development in Kenya
- Baraka, Kenya, a town in Kenya.
- Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
- Har Braka, a village in Samaria, Israel
[edit] People
- Amiri Baraka (1934 - ), a U.S. writer.
- Barakah Khan (1260 - 1280, son of Baibars and briefly a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria
- Baraka al-Yamaniyah, wife of `Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd, first monarch of Saudi Arabia
- Baraka, the wife of the antediluvian patriarch Jared, according to the apocryphal book of Jubilees
- Mir Sayyid Baraka, a teacher to 14th century warlord Timur
[edit] See also
- Barack Obama, a U.S. politician whose first name is derived from the Kiswahili word, baraka meaning blessed.