'''Barish''' ({{lang-ar|باريش }}) is a local authority in [[Southern Lebanon]], located in [[Tyre District]], [[South Governorate|Governorate of South Lebanon]].
==Name==
nisAnis Freiha said that the origin of her 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.” <ref>{{cite book |last1=Daher, Al Cheick Saliman. |title=Dictionary of Jabal Amel Village |publisher=Daher,Imam Al-Sadiq CheickFoundation Saliman.for Research in the Heritage of the Scholars of Jabal Amel |pages=73 |url=http://www.masaha.org/book/view/3744-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84}}</ref>
