# فرخ
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

From the root ف ر خ (f r ḵ). Cognate with Hebrew פֶּרַח (péraḥ, “flower”) and פָּרַח (pāraḥ, “to bloom”), Aramaic פְּרַח, ܦܪܰܚ (pəraḥ, “to fly”), Ge'ez ፈርኅ (färḫ, “chick”), ፈርኀ (färḫä, “to sprout, to germinate”), Akkadian 𒉺𒊏𒄷 (/⁠parāḫu⁠/, “to sprout, to germinate”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /farx/

#### Noun

فَرْخ • (farḵ) m (plural فِرَاخ (firāḵ) or أَفْرَاخ (ʔafrāḵ) or فُرُوخ (furūḵ) or أَفْرُخ (ʔafruḵ))
* chick, young bird
* sprout (of a plant)

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: فَرْخَة (hen)
* Maltese: ferħ
* → Khalaj: fərik
* Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: ferx
    → Central Kurdish: فەرخ (ferx)

### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /far.ra.xa/

#### Verb

فَرَّخَ • (farraḵa) II (non-past يُفَرِّخُ (yufarriḵu), verbal noun تَفْرِيخ (tafrīḵ))
* to have chicks (of birds)
* to hatch, to incubate
* to germinate, to sprout

##### Conjugation
### References

* “prḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1898) “Zum sporadischen Lautwandel in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), volume 3, page 72
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “فرخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فرخ”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 564
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 166
* Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 324
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “فرخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Khalaj
### Noun

فَرِخ (fərik) (definite accusative فَرِخی, plural فَرِخلَر)
* Arabic spelling of fərik (“chicken, chick”)

#### Declension
## Persian
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (plhw' /⁠farrox⁠/), 𐫛𐫡𐫇𐫑 (prwk̇ /⁠farrox⁠/), from Old Median *farnahvāh, from Proto-Iranian *húHarnahwāh. According to folk etymology, فر (farr, “royal splendor”) +‎ رخ (rox, “face”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [faɾ.ˈɾux]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fär.rʊ́x]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fär.rʊ́x]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [fär.rʊ́x]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [fär.rúx]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fæɹ.ɹóx]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [fäɾ.ɾúχ]

### Adjective

فرخ • (farrox)
* auspicious, fortunate
* splendid, beautiful
** 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 13:زنده است نام فرخ نوشیروان بعدل گر چه بسی گذشت که نوشین روان نماندzinda ast nām-i farrux-i nōšīrwān ba adl gar či basē guḏašt ki nōšēn rawān na-māndNoshirvan's splendid name still lives for justice, Even though so much time has passed since his sweet soul ceased to exist.(Classical Persian romanization)

#### Derived terms

* فرخی (farroxi)