Barack

barack English <dab!> Etymology Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of en Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical en Baruch. Pronunciation Proper noun: en /bəˈɹak, -ˈɹɑːk/ /ˈbaɹak/ UK en /bəˈɹɑk/ US en En-us-Barack.ogg US Adjective: en /bəˈɹæk/ US Proper noun en male Arabic. 1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), 978-0-307-38341-9, page 104: "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." en Laura Barrón-López and Alex Thompson Biden under fire for mass deportations under Obama w:POLITICO https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/biden-immigration-2020-1411691 2019-07-12 Joe Biden has had a two-word retort to recent questions about his record on civil rights and race: Barack Obama. https://web.archive.org/web/20251105190324/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/biden-immigration-2020-1411691 5 November 2025 Derived terms en Baracknophobia en BHO Related terms en Barak en Mubarak Translations male given name Arabic: ar بَارَاك m Armenian: hy Բարաք Belarusian: be Бара́к m Bulgarian: bg Бара́к m Cherokee: chr Ꮖ̃ᎳᎩ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 巴拉克 Bālākè Esperanto: eo Barako Finnish: fi Barack of Obama Georgian: ka ბარაკ German: de Barack m Greek: el Μπαράκ Hebrew: he ברק m barák, he ברוך m barukh Hindi: hi बराक Japanese: ja バラク Baraku Korean: ko ^버락 Lithuanian: lt Barackas m Macedonian: mk Бара́к m Marathi: mr बराक m Nepali: ne बराक Persian: fa باراک bârâk Portuguese: pt Barack m Russian: ru Бара́к m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Барак m Latin: sh Barack m, sh Barak m Thai: th บารัก baarák Turkish: tr Burak Ukrainian: uk Бара́к m Urdu: ur براک barāk Uyghur: ug باراك Vietnamese: vi Ba-rắc See also Adjective en predicative Internet slang humorous A pun on the first name of United States President Barack Obama and en back, often used in the phrase "we're so Barack" ("we're so back"). Formed antonymically to "it's Joever" ("it's over"). en Joever en It was so Joever, but now we're so Barack. Anagrams en aabckr backra