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Barah Maha (Punjabi poetry)

Barah Maha, also called Barahmasa, is a Punjabi folk-poetry form of twelve stanzas in which each month mirrors a woman's longing for her absent beloved.

Barahmaha

Barahmaha, also written Barah Maha or barahmasa, is a poetic genre of North India in which twelve stanzas, one per month, voice a woman's longing for her separated beloved.

Barahmasa

Barahmasa (बारहमासा, "twelve months") is a song and poetic genre of the Indian subcontinent in which the twelve months are described through a woman's longing for her absent beloved.

Barail

Barail (also Baralie, Sbaraglio) is a medieval Italian tables game of the backgammon family, recorded from the 13th century, played counter-clockwise from one side with 15 men and three dice or two dice plus a fixed six.

Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj Mound

Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj: mauza at Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, holding the ASI centrally protected Ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath (Dhamek Stupa, Jagat Singh Stupa, Major Kittoe's monastery), protected 1928, excavated by Oertal 1904-05.

Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome

Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome (BWCFF) is a rare genetic disorder marked by distinctive facial features, intellectual disability, and brain, eye, and other malformations, caused by ACTB or ACTG1 mutations.

Baraja Bendita

Baraja Bendita ("Blessed Deck of Cards") is Becky G's fifth studio album, released August 14, 2026 on RCA Records: 17 tracks, about 47 minutes, mixing reggaetón, Latin pop, house, and rap, preceded by singles PATRONA, EPA, and MARATHON.

Barak 8 (ברק 8)

Barak 8 (ברק 8), also designated LR-SAM or MR-SAM, is a long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile system jointly developed by India's DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries.

Barak A. Cohen

Barak A. Cohen is a computational biologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for thermodynamic models of cis-regulation and massively parallel reporter assays.

Barak Khan

Barak Khan (Барақ хан), who died in 1427 or 1428, was a Jochid ruler who briefly seized the Golden Horde throne and fathered Janibek Khan.

Barak MX

Barak MX is an integrated air and missile defense system developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and unveiled in 2018, fielding Barak interceptors with ranges from 15 to 150 km.

Barak Sultan

Barak Sultan (Барақ сұлтан), died 1750, was a Kazakh sultan of the Middle Zhuz who became khan in 1749 and killed his rival Abulkhair Khan.

Barak, Kyrgyzstan

Barak was a Kyrgyz exclave village in Uzbekistan's Andijan region, the only Kyrgyz enclave in Uzbekistan; isolated after a 2013 border closure, it was transferred to Uzbekistan in a 2024 land swap and its residents resettled to Jany-Barak, Osh region.

Baraka (film)

Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, shot in 70mm across 24 countries with no narration, music by Michael Stearns, followed by Samsara (2011).

Baraka (Mortal Kombat)

Baraka is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a bladed, cannibalistic Tarkatan warrior introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993) serving Shao Kahn, later reimagined sympathetically in MK11 and Mortal Kombat 1 and played by C.J. Bloomfield in the 2026 Mortal Kombat II film.

Barakah nuclear power plant

The Barakah nuclear power plant is a four-unit nuclear station in Abu Dhabi, the first in the Arab world, supplying about a quarter of the UAE's electricity.

Barakaldo

Barakaldo, Basque municipality in Bizkaia on the Nervión estuary near Bilbao; second-largest Bizkaia city, former steel town, home of the Bilbao Exhibition Centre and Zamalanda park.

Barakamon

Barakamon (ばらかもん) is Satsuki Yoshino's slice-of-life manga about calligrapher Seishuu Handa exiled to the Goto Islands; 18 volumes, 10 million copies, 2014 anime by Kinema Citrus, 2023 Fuji TV drama.

Barakat I

Barakat I (بركات الأول) was Emir of Mecca under Mamluk suzerainty from 1425 until his death in 1454–1455, deposed by Sultan Jaqmaq in 1441 and restored in 1446.

Barakat ibn Muhammad

Barakat ibn Muhammad (بركات بن محمد) was Sharif of Mecca from 1497 to 1525, first under the Mamluks and then, from 1517, under the Ottomans.

Baramulla (film)

Baramulla is a 2025 Hindi supernatural horror thriller on Netflix, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale, starring Manav Kaul as a cop probing child disappearances in Kashmir, tied to the Kashmiri Pandit exodus; 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Baran (باران)

Baran (باران, "Rain") is Majid Majidi's 2001 Iranian drama about Lateef, an Iranian worker who falls for Rahmat, an Afghan girl disguised as a boy; it won six Fajr Crystal Simorghs and the Montreal Grand Prize and was Iran's Oscar entry.

Baran bo Odar

Baran bo Odar, born 1978 in Olten, Switzerland, is a director and screenwriter; with Jantje Friese he created Dark, the first German Netflix series (2017–2020), and 1899 (2022), after the features The Silence and Who Am I.

Barangay

Barangay: the lowest political administrative unit of the Philippines, descended from precolonial balangai boat communities led by datus, renamed barrio under Spain, and now a 42,011-unit grassroots government with elected captains and councils.

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (Gin Kings), PBA team owned by Ginebra San Miguel Inc. of San Miguel Corporation; most popular PBA club, eleven titles, Tim Cone coach, won the 2026 Commissioner's Cup over TNT.

Baranivka Raion

Baranivka Raion (Баранівський район), a former district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Baranivka on the Sluch River; established 1923, abolished in the July 2020 reform and merged into Zviahel Raion.

Baranof Island

Baranof Island (Tlingit Shee), a 4,065 km2 mountainous island in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago; site of Sitka, former Russian-American capital, heavy glaciation, and Tlingit-Russian conflict of 1802 and 1804.

Baranya County

Baranya County (Baranya megye) is Hungary's southernmost county, seat Pécs, area 4,430 km², population 348,781 (2026), 301 settlements, declining population, machinery industry dominant in Pécs.

Baraqish

Barāqish, known in antiquity as Yathill, is a walled city site in Wādī al-Jawf, Yemen, second city and religious center of the Minaean kingdom of Maʿīn.

Bārāsat

Bārāsat (Barasat, বারাসত) is the district headquarters town of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on Kolkata's outskirts; a municipality since 1869 with about 278,000 people (2011) and a Yellow Line metro terminus under construction.