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barack

/ˈbɒɹətsk/UK/bəˈɹak

barack noun: hungarian apricot brandy. Also the alternative letter-case form of Barack.

Noun

barack (uncountable)

  1. Hungarian apricot brandy.

Proper noun capitalized: Barack

Barack

  1. A male given name from Arabic.
    • "What did Marcus call you just now? Some African name, wasn't it?" "Barack." "I thought your name was Barry." "Barack's my given name. My father's name. He was Kenyan." "Does it mean something?" "It means 'Blessed'. In Arabic. My grandfather was a Muslim."1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), page 104
    • Joe Biden has had a two-word retort to recent questions about his record on civil rights and race: Barack Obama.2019 July 12, Laura Barrón-López and Alex Thompson, “Biden under fire for mass deportations under Obama”, in POLITICO

Adjective capitalized: Barack

US/bəˈɹæk/

Barack (comparative more Barack, superlative most Barack)

  1. (Internet, humorous, predicative) A pun on the first name of United States President Barack Obama and back, often used in the phrase "we're so Barack" ("we're so back"). Formed antonymically to "it's Joever" ("it's over").
    • It was so Joever, but now we're so Barack.
    Antonyms:
    Joever

Also used as

barack is also the alternative letter-case form of Barack.

barack meaning in Urdu

barack in Urdu

براک

Antonyms of barack

Forms of barack

comparativemore barack
superlativemost barack
comparativemore Barack
superlativemost Barack

Origin of barack

From Hungarian barack (“apricot, peach”), probably an ellipsis of barackpálinka, a compound with pálinka (“brandy”).

Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.

Words formed from barack

Questions about barack

What does barack mean?
Barack means hungarian apricot brandy.
What is barack in Urdu?
Barack in Urdu is براک. See Barack meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is barack?
Barack can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce barack?
Barack is pronounced /ˈbɒɹətsk/.

Words near barack in the dictionary

  1. baracan
  2. baracans
  3. Baracbac
  4. barachois
  5. barachory
  6. barack
  7. Barackman
  8. Baracknophobia
  9. baraclude
  10. baracromian
  11. baracromians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barack (page history and authors); Barack (page history and authors); barack (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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