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Etymology [edit]
Middle English barli, barly, from Old English (adj.) bærlīċ (“barley-like”), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere ‘six-rowed barley’), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- ‘spike, prickle’ (compare Welsh bara ‘bread’, Latin far ‘spelt’, Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno ‘flour’, Albanian bar ‘grass’, Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
barley (usually uncountable; plural barleys)
- A strong cereal of the genus Hordeum, or its grains, often used as food or to make malted drinks.
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Translations [edit]
strong cereal of the genus Hordeum, or its grains
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- Kyrgyz: арпа (ky) (arpa)
- Latgalian: mīži
- Latin: hordeum (la) n
- Latvian: mieži (lv)
- Lithuanian: miežis (lt)
- Macedonian: јачмен (mk) (jáčmen) m
- Norwegian: bygg (no) n and m
- Occitan: òrdi (oc) m
- Old English: bere (ang) m
- Persian: جو (fa) (jow)
- Polish: jęczmień (pl) m
- Portuguese: cevada (pt) f
- Romanian: orz (ro) n
- Romansch: ierdi (rm), üerdi (rm), giuta (rm), giutta (rm), giuotta (rm)
- Russian: ячмень (ru) (jačmén’) m
- Sardinian: ogliu (sc), olzu (sc), orgiu (sc), orju (sc), orzu (sc)
- Scots: baurley
- Scottish Gaelic: eòrna (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јечам (sh)
- Roman: ječam (sh) m
- Slovene: ječmen (sl) m
- Spanish: cebada (es) f
- Swahili: shayiri (sw)
- Swedish: korn (sv) n
- Tatar: arpa (tt), арпа (tt)
- Telugu: బార్లీ (te)
- Turkish: arpa (tr)
- Tuvan: көже
- Uyghur: ئارپا (ug)
- Võro: kesv
- Walloon: oidje (wa)
- Welsh: haidd (cy) m (collective), barlys (cy) m and f (collective)
- Yakut: нэчимиэн
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