barley

See also: Barley

English

A field of barley.

Etymology

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːli/

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• Homophones: Bali (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li

Noun

barley (usually uncountable, plural barleys)

1. A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
2. (Singapore) seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)

Hypernyms

• (grain crop): grain, cereal

Derived terms

• barley beer
• barley-bird
• barley bird (Spinus spinus)
• barley-brake
• barley bread
• barley-bree
• barley-broo
• barley-broth
• barley coal
• barleycorn
• barley fork
• barley grass (Hordeum murinum)
• barley-hood
• barley itch
• barley jointworm (Harmolita hordei)
• barleylike
• barleymeal
• barley midge (Phytophaga destructor)
• Barley mild mosaic bymovirus
• barleymow
• barley reel
• barley sack
• barley sandwich (a beer - Canada)
• barley scab fungus (Fusarium roseum)
• barley scald (Rhynchosporium secalis)
• barley smut (Ustilago nuda, Ustilago hordei)
• Barley stripe mosaic virus
• Barley stripe mosaic virus
• barley-sugar
• barley sugar
• barley twist
• barley water
• barley-water
• barley wine
• barley-wine
• Barley yellow striate mosaic virus
• caustic barley (from Schoenocaulon officinale)
• common barley
• four-rowed barley
• foxtail barley
• Himalayan barley (Hordeum aegiceras, Hordeum distichon)
• little barley (Hordeum pusillum)
• meadow barley (Hordeum nodosum)
• mouse barley (Hordeum murinum)
• nonbarley
• pearl barley
• sea barley (Hordeum marinum)
• six-rowed barley
• sprat barley (Hordeum zeocriton, now Hordeum distichon or Hordeum vulgare)
• squirreltail barley (Hordeum spp.)
• Tibetan barley (Hordeum aegiceras, Hordeum distichon)
• two-rowed barley
• wall barley
• wild barley (Hordeum spp.)

 

Translations

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: (collective) barlys, barlysen f
• 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)
• Inuktitut: ᐹᓖᑦ (paaliit)
• 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), آرفه (arfa)
• 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

Further reading

• barley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hordeum vulgare on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Braley, barely, bearly, bleary

Scots

Etymology

Probably a corruption of English parley.

Interjection

barley

1. A cry for truce in children's games.