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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 is derived from B-R-Q (Hebrew: ב־ר־ק; Arabic: ب-ر-ق), meaning "lightning". Some identify similarities to other Hebrew root words.
The Semitic root B-R-Q has the meaning "to shine"; "lightning". [1]: p.122 The biblical name ברק Bārāq is given after Barak, a military commander who appears in the Book of Judges. The Arabic cognate is بَرق barq (not to be confused with بَارَك bārak, which is cognate with Hebrew בָּרוּךְ bārûch).
Birth name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr. Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [9] [10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 [2] [3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995 ...
1.1 Barack Hussein Obama's Name. 15 comments. 1.2 GPL and Works of the Federal Government. 6 comments. 1.3 Sources on the social history of England in the high middle ...
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Except it doesn't. Mubarack is "The blessed one". Barack means "bless". But then, Barack also means "lightning" in Hebrew... Hussein is basically "handsome boy". The misinterpretation of the meaning of Obama's name is as a result that people assume that Barack is a shortened version of Mubarack and are applying that meaning to Barack.
The irreconcilable differences between the brothers, who share the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., started near the end of Barack’s first term, when Malik’s Virginia-based charity, the ...