A variant form is Baraka or Barack (Arabic: بارك, romanized: bārak), analogous to the Hebrew verb "barakh" בָרַךּ, meaning "to kneel, bless", and derived from the concept of kneeling in prayer.
Mubarak is thus the Arabic equivalent of the Latinate name "Benedict" (from Benedictus "blessed" or, literally, "well-spoken").
Etymologically, the name is from the Semitic consonantal root BRK, derivatives of which occur in numerous formulas of politeness in Arabic.
[citation needed] In the Quran, the olive tree and the 27th of Ramadan are mubǎrak.
There is no specific cognate for Mubarak, which includes the Arabic participle prefix mu-.