Etymology[edit]
Proto-Turkic *yār- (“to crack, split, crush”)
list of cognates
Cognate with
Old Uyghur [script needed] (jarma, “cereal, grain”);
Kazakh жарма (jarma),
Uzbek yorma,
Uyghur yarma (“grain, cereal”),
Kyrgyz жарма (jarma, “boiled cereals; crushed grains”), Tuvan чарба (çarba, “crushed grains”),Tatar ярма (yarma), Southern Altai јарма (ǰarma), Bashkir ярма (yarma).
чарба • (çarba)
- grain, cereal
