Barack (other)
Barack Obama is an American attorney who served as President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Barack may also refer to: * Barack (name), including a list of people with the name * Barack (brandy), a Hungarian apricot brandy See also * * Barac (other) * Baraq (other) * Barak (other) Barak was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. Barak may also refer to: People * Barak (given name) * Barak (surname) ** Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli politician * Barak (Guantanamo captive 856), an Afghan detainee at Guant ... * Barrack (other) * Buraq (other) * Burack (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and previously worked as a civil rights lawyer before entering politics. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the '' Harvard Law Review''. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U ...
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Barack (name)
Barack, also spelled Barak or Baraq, is a given name of Arabic origin. From the Semitic root ''B-R-K'', it means "blessed" and is most commonly used in its feminine form ''Baraka(h)''. The Semitic root ''B-R-K'' has the original meaning of "to kneel down", with a secondary meaning "to bless". In Islamic mysticism, ''Barakah'' ( ar, بركة ) is a concept of spiritual presence or revelation. The cognate Hebrew term is ''Berakhah'' (בְּרָכָה) "benediction, blessing" which is related to the Biblical Hebrew given name Baruch (). It can also be derived from the root ''B-R-Q'' ( he, ב-ר-ק; ar, ب-ر-ق ), meaning "lightning". The Arabic masculine given name Mubarak is the Arabic stem III passive participle, ' (), meaning "blessed (one)". The name is cognate with the Amharic given name ብሩክ ("Biruk"). People with the given name * Barack Adama (born 1985), a French rapper * Barack Obama (b. 1961), former US president * Barack Obama Sr. (1936-1982), fathe ...
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Barack (brandy)
Barack () is a type of Hungarian brandy (Pálinka) made of (or flavored with) apricots; an apricot brandy. The word ''barack'' is a collective term for both apricot (in Hungarian ''sárgabarack'', lit. "yellow-peach") and peach (in Hungarian ''őszibarack'', lit. "autumn-peach"). Note that the Hungarian word ''barack'' is etymologically related to the English word 'peach' as well as many words meaning the same in many European languages, and ultimately goes back to ''persikos'', the ancient Greek word for 'Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...'. See also * Brandies Apricots {{Distilled-beverage-stub ...
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Barac (other)
Barac may refer to: * Barak, a 12th Century BC ruler and judge of Ancient Israel * Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog, aka ''Barac'' * Caves of Barać, in Croatia People * Antun Barac (1894–1955), Croatian historian * Fran Barac (1872–1940), Croatian theologian and politician * Ioan Barac (1776–1848), Romanian poet * Jakub Barac (born 1996), Czech footballer * Valér Barač (1909–1991), Slovak athlete * See also * Barak (other) * Baraq (other) * Barack (other) * Baracs Baracs is a village in Fejér county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeas ...

Baraq (other)
Barak (Hebrew: בָּרָק, bārāq, "lightning"), is a masculine name of Hebrew origin. It appears in the biblical Book of Judges as the name of the Israelite general Barak, who alongside Deborah led an attack against the forces of King Jabin of Hazor. Etymology The Semitic root '' B-R-Q'' has the meaning "to shine"; "lightning". The biblical name ' is given after Barak, a military commander who appears in the Book of Judges. The Arabic cognate is ' (not to be confused with ', which is cognate with Hebrew '). The epithet ''Barcas'' of the Punic general Hamilcar is derived from the same root, as is the name of Al-Buraq, the miraculous steed of Islamic Mi'raj tradition. Although the given name is mostly Jewish and found predominantly in Israel, it has occasionally been used by Anglo-Saxon Protestants in the early modern period, when given names from the Hebrew Bible were in fashion, as in the name of Barak Longmate, an 18th-century English genealogist. Use as a g ...
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Barak (other)
Barak was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. Barak may also refer to: People * Barak (given name) * Barak (surname) ** Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli politician * Barak (Guantanamo captive 856), an Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay * Barak (tribe), a tribe of Turkomans mainly inhabiting south-central Turkey Places * Barak, Iran (other) * Barak, Israel * Barak, Kyrgyzstan * Barak, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland * Barak, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland * Barak River or Ovurei River, in India and Bangladesh ** Barak Valley, Assam, India * Barak, Bayat Military and weapons * Barak Armored Brigade, an Israeli brigade * Operation Barak, a 1948 Haganah military operation north of Gaza * Barak 1, an Israeli naval point-defense missile system * Barak 8, an Indian-Israeli surface-to-air missile * SP-21 Barak, a pistol made by Israel Weapons Industries Other uses * Barak hound or Bosnian Broken-haired Hound, a dog breed * Barak, a character in ''The Belgar ...
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Barrack (other)
Barracks are buildings built to house military personnel or laborers. Barrack may also refer to: People * Romana Barrack (1928–2016), English television writer * Thomas J. Barrack Jr. (born 1947), American real estate investor Other uses *Hay barrack, an open structure for storing loose hay * Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, a school in Pennsylvania, U.S. * ''Barrack'' (video game), by Ambrosia Software See also * * Barracking (other) *Barack (other) * Barak (other) *Baraq (other) Barak (Hebrew: בָּרָק, bārāq, "lightning"), is a masculine name of Hebrew origin. It appears in the biblical Book of Judges as the name of the Israelite general Barak, who alongside Deborah led an attack against the forces of King Jabi ...

Buraq (other)
Buraq is a heavenly hybrid creature in Islamic mythology. Buraq or Boraq may also refer to: Places * Buraq, Iran, a village * Borun, Iran, also known as Borāq, a village * Burraq, Syria * Al-Buraq, Syria Other uses * Buraq Air, a Libyan Airline * Buraq Hajib, 13th century leader of the Qara Khitay people * Buraq Express, a passenger train in Pakistan * Radio Buraq, an FM radio station in Pakistan * Buraq Wall, another name for the Western Wall in Jerusalem **Al-Buraq Mosque * Al Boraq, or Casablanca–Tangier high-speed rail line, in Morocco * Buraq Ansari, antagonist of the 2019 Indian film '' Commando 3'', played by Gulshan Devaiah See also * * Barack (other) * Barak (other) * Baraq (other) * 1929 Palestine riots, or the Buraq Uprising * Boragh Boragh or Boraq ( fa, نفربر براق) is an Iranian-made armoured personnel carrier. Boragh is believed to be a reverse engineered and upgraded model of the Chinese Type 86 (BMP-1). The upgra ...
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