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Barish () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. ==Etymology== E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name Barish meant "abounding in herbage".

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Barish () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. ==Etymology== E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name Barish meant "abounding in herbage".

Anis Freiha said that the origin of the name is Syriac: “The house of the chief and the lieutenant colonel, and he mentioned that there is another possibility that it is from the Hebrew bero ?sh: cypress, and in the Aramaic bero ?sh, and in the Syriac.”

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