برك - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Derived from Proto-Semitic *birk-, *bark- (“knee”) (ب ر ك (b r k)). Compare رُكْبَة (rukba, “knee”), from the variant root.

بَرَكَ • (baraka) I (non-past يَبْرُكُ (yabruku), verbal noun بُرُوك (burūk) or تَبْرُوك (tabrūk))

1. to kneel down

• Maltese: birek

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “برك”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

For meaning "make kneel", causative of بَرَكَ (baraka, “to kneel down”). For meaning "invoke a blessing", denominal verb from بَرَكَة (baraka, “blessing”).

بَرَّكَ • (barraka) II (non-past يُبَرِّكُ (yubarriku), verbal noun تَبْرِيك (tabrīk))

1. to make kneel
2. to invoke a blessing

• أبرك
• بركَة
• تبريك
• مبارك

From Proto-Semitic *birk- (“knee”).

برك (bɛrk) m (dual بركي (bɛ́rki), plural بيرك (bírok))

1. knee

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 519