Etymology
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From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew.
Pronunciation
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barley (usually uncountable, plural barleys)
- A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
- (Singapore) seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)
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Translations
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Hordeum vulgare or its grains
- Abkhaz: ақьар (akʲar)
- Adyghe: хьэ (ḥɛ)
- Afrikaans: gars
- Aghwan: 𐕌𐕒𐕡 (mu)
- Albanian: elb (sq) m
- Arabic: شَعِير m (šaʕīr)
- Egyptian Arabic: شعير m (šaʕīr)
- Aragonese: ordio (an)
- Armenian: գարի (hy) (gari)
- Aromanian: ordzu n
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: cebada f
- Avar: бугӏа (buʻa)
- Azerbaijani: arpa (az)
- Bashkir: арпа (arpa)
- Basque: garagar
- Belarusian: ячме́нь m (jačmjénʹ)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bhojpuri: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: heiz (br)
- Bulgarian: ечеми́к (bg) m (ečemík)
- Burmese: မုယော (my) (mu.yau:)
- Catalan: ordi (ca) m
- Chakma: please add this translation if you can
- Chechen: мукх (muq)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏔ ᎤᏛᏒ (ugata udvsv)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大麥/大麦 (daai6 mak6)
- Mandarin: 大麥/大麦 (zh) (dàmài)
- Chuvash: урпа (urp̬a)
- Cornish: barlys
- Crimean Tatar: arpa
- Czech: ječmen (cs) m
- Dalmatian: vuarz m
- Danish: byg (da) c
- Dargwa: мухъи (muqi)
- Dhivehi: ހިމަ ގޮދަން (hima godan̊)
- Dutch: gerst (nl) m
- Egyptian: (jt)
- Erzya: шуж (šuž)
- Esperanto: hordeo (eo)
- Estonian: oder (et)
- Faroese: bygg n
- Finnish: ohra (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: horgeo m
- French: orge (fr) f
- Friulian: vuardi m
- Galician: orxo (gl) m, cebada (gl) f
- Georgian: ქერი (keri)
- German: Gerste (de) f
- Greek: κριθάρι (el) n (krithári)
- Ancient: κριθή f (krithḗ), κρῖ n (krî) (Epic)
- Guanche: tano (Tenerife), aramotanoque (Gran Canaria), tamosen (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote)
- Gujarati: જવ (jav)
- Hausa: sha’ir
- Hebrew: שעורה (he) f (s‘ora)
- Hindi: जौ (hi) m (jau)
- Hungarian: árpa (hu)
- Icelandic: bygg (is) n
- Ido: hordeo (io)
- Ingrian: odra
- Ingush: мукх (muq)
- Irish: eorna f
- Old Irish: eórna f
- Italian: orzo (it) m
- Japanese: 大麦 (ja) (おおむぎ, ōmugi), オオムギ (ja) (ōmugi)
- Kabardian: хьэ (kbd) (ḥɛ)
- Kalmyk: арва (arva)
- Kannada: ಬಾರ್ಲಿ (kn) (bārli), ಜವೆ (kn) (jave)
- Karachay-Balkar: арпа (arpa)
- Kashubian: jãczm m
- Kazakh: арпа (kk) (arpa)
- Khakas: кӧче
- Khmer: ស្រូវបាឡេ (srəwbaalee)
- Komi-Permyak: ид (id)
- Korean: 보리 (ko) (bori)
- Kumyk: арпа (arpa)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: جۆ (co)
- Northern Kurdish: ceh (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: جۊیە (cüye)
- Kyrgyz: арпа (ky) (arpa)
- Lak: хъа (qa)
- Latgalian: mīži
- Latin: hordeum n
- Latvian: mieži (lv)
- Lezgi: мух (muχ)
- Lithuanian: miežis
- Low German: Garst f
- Luxembourgish: Geescht f
- Macedonian: јачмен m (jačmen)
- Magahi: please add this translation if you can
- Maithili: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: barli
- Malayalam: യവം (ml) (yavaṁ)
- Manchu: ᠮᡠᠵᡳ (muji), ᠠᡵᡶᠠ (arfa)
- Manx: oarn f
- Maranao: dawa'
- Middle English: barly
- Mòcheno: gerst f
- Mongolian: арвай (mn) (arvaj)
- Nanai: пуди (puʒi)
- Norwegian: bygg (no) n or m
- Occitan: òrdi (oc) m
- Odia: ଯଅ (or) (jôô)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: ѩчьмꙑ pl (jęčĭmy), ѩчьмꙑкъ m (jęčĭmykŭ)
- Old English: bere (ang) m
- Oromo: garbuu
- Ossetian: кӕрвӕдз (kærvæʒ), хъӕбӕрхор (qæbærxor)
- Persian: جو (fa) (jow)
- Plautdietsch: Joascht f
- Polabian: jącmin m
- Polish: jęczmień (pl) m
- Portuguese: cevada (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਜੌਂ m (jaũ)
- Quechua: siwara
- Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: orz (ro) n
- Romansch: ierdi, üerdi, giuta, giutta, giuotta
- Russian: ячме́нь (ru) m (jačménʹ)
- Sanskrit: यव (sa) m (yava)
- Sardinian: ogliu, olzu, orgiu, orju, orzu
- Scots: baurley
- Scottish Gaelic: eòrna m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јечам
- Roman: ječam (sh) m
- Shor: арба (arba)
- Sicilian: oriu
- Silesian: jynčmiyń m
- Sinhalese: බාර්ලි (bārli)
- Slovak: jačmeň (sk) m
- Slovene: ječmen (sl) m
- Somali: shaciir
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: jacmjeń m
- Upper Sorbian: ječmjeń m
- Southern Altai: арба (arba)
- Spanish: cebada (es) f
- Sudovian: maizīs
- Svan: ჭჷმინ (č̣əmin)
- Swahili: shayiri
- Swedish: korn (sv) n
- Tabasaran: мух (muꭓ)
- Tagalog: sebada
- Tajik: ҷав (tg) (jav)
- Tamil: வாற்கோதுமை (ta) (vāṟkōtumai)
- Tarifit: imendi m
- Tat: жуьгь
- Tatar: арпа (tt) (arpa)
- Telugu: బార్లీ (te) (bārlī)
- Thai: บาร์เลย์ (baa-lêe)
- Tibetan: ནས (nas), འབྲུ ('bru)
- Turkish: arpa (tr)
- Turkmen: arpa (tk)
- Tuvan: көже (köje)
- Udi: му (mu)
- Udmurt: йыды (jydy)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎓𐎗 (šʿr)
- Ukrainian: ячмі́нь (uk) m (jačmínʹ)
- Urdu: جو m (jau)
- Uyghur: ئارپا (arpa)
- Uzbek: arpa (uz)
- Venetian: órxo m
- Vietnamese: lúa mạch
- Võro: kesv
- Walloon: oidje (wa)
- Welsh: haidd (cy) m (collective), barlys (cy) m or f (collective)
- Xhosa: irhasi
- Yagnobi: яԝ
- Yakut: нэчимиэн (necimien)
- Yiddish: גערשט m or f (gersht)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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