خراج

العربية

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خراج^¹

/xa.raːd͡ʒ/

Where it comes from

From خ ر ج (ḵ r j) in the sense “to extract” or “take out”, with phono-semantic matching from Middle Persian apparently in an unattested by-form of by-itself Iranian-origin 𐫍𐫡𐫃 (hrg /⁠harg⁠/), 𐫟𐫡𐫃 (xrg /⁠xarg⁠/), 𐫆𐫡𐫵𐫃 (hrːg /⁠harg⁠/, “tribute”) surfacing as Old Armenian հարկ (hark) etc., an already Old Persian contamination *harākah (“tribute, tax, any public charge based on land property”) on the model of Imperial Aramaic 𐡄𐡋𐡊𐡀 (hlkʾ /⁠hălāḵā⁠/, “tribute, tax, any public charge based on land property”), itself calqued from Akkadian 𒅋𒆪 (il-ku /⁠ilku⁠/, “corvée, tribute, any public charge based on land property”). Also attested several times in Biblical Aramaic הֲלָכָא (/⁠hălāḵā⁠/) but otherwise missing in Aramaic.

noun خَرَاج · ḵarāj · أَخْرَاج · أَخْرِجَة · الْخَرَاج

public levy, subsidy; poll-tax, tribute

خراج^²

noun خُرَاج · خُرَّاج · ḵurāj · ḵurrāj · خُرَاجَات · خُرَّاجَات

abscess, boil, aposteme

In English

abscess cavity filled with pus
boil accumulation of pus
tribute payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {خراج},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}