Baraka

Baraka means blessing in Hebrew, Arabic and Arabic-influenced languages. It may refer to:

• Baraka, also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
• Baraka, also barakah, in Arabic Islam and Arabic-influenced languages such as Swahili, Urdu, Persian, Turkish, a blessing from God in the form of spiritual wisdom or divine presence. Also a spiritual power believed to be possessed by certain persons, objects, tombs.
  • Baraka, a rarely used French slang term for luck, derived from the Arabic word
  • Baraka, fully ḥabbat al-barakah, aka Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits
• Baraka Bashad, meaning "may the blessings be" or just "blessings be", originally a Sufi expression and also used in Eckankar

Media

• Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film by Ron Fricke
• Baraka (novel), a 1983 novel by John Ralston Saul
• Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat series
• The Boys of Baraka, a 2005 documentary film
• Baraka 5b, a novel by Miroslav Krleža^{[citation needed]}
• "Baraka," a song by Sound Tribe Sector 9

Places

• Baraka, a town 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, Kenya, a town in Kenya.
• Baraka College, a college for sustainable agriculture and rural development in Molo, Kenya
• Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
• Baraka, the local nickname for Barakaldo, Spain
• Baraka River, Eritrea and Sudan
• Har Braka, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestinian territories

People

• Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), a U.S. writer.
• Barakah Khan (1260 - 1280, son of Baibars and briefly a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria
• Baraka Obama (1934–1982), birth name of U.S. President Barack Obama's father.

Other

• Baraka Kutina, an alternative youth music club in Kutina, Croatia
• Baraka is the name of an Italian jewellery brand catering entirely to men [1]
• Baraka, an Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene and Turkish word for "shack"
  • barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves

See also

• Barack (given name)