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Definition of Baraka
1. Noun. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
Definition of Baraka
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Arabic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baraka
Literary usage of Baraka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Africa During the Years 1875[-1886] by Wilhelm Junker (1890)
"Heuglin drew my attention to the still unexplored region of the Khor baraka,1
which reaches the plains of the coast-lands on the Red Sea some distance south ..."
2. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1863)
"This set baraka on the qui vive to catch Bombay tripping; for baraka knew he
could not get her without paying a good price for her, and therefore watched ..."
3. The Fetish Folk of West Africa by Robert H. Milligan (1912)
"... south of the Plateau there is another hill nearly as high, and having the
finest outlook towards the sea. On this hill is the mission station, baraka. ..."
4. Savage Africa: Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern by William Winwood Reade (1864)
"CHAPTER XI. THE TRIBE OF COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. [CHAP. I enter the Gaboon.—Take
a House.—Tornado i: Fever.—baraka Mission. ..."
5. The Wild Tribes of the Soudan: An Account of Travel and Sport Chiefly in the by Frank Linsly James (1883)
"Khor baraka.— Another Watch for Lions. — Thrilling Adventure with a Lion. — News
of the stolen Rifles and Horse. OUR first day's journey, after leaving the ..."
6. From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston (1908)
"ABOUT seventy miles down the west shore of Tanganyika is the wide inlet known as
Burton's Gulf, near the head of which is baraka, ..."
7. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1868)
"baraka.—Manner in which the Missionaries teach.— A day's Work on the Station.
I LEFT America for the western coast of Africa in the month of October, 1855. ..."
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