գարի

From Old Armenian գարի (gari).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡɑˈɾi]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [kʰɑˈɾi]

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գարի • (gari)

1. barley

• գարեջուր (gareǰur)

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥yom and cognate with Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ, “barley-corns”), κρῖ (krî, “barley”), Albanian drithë (“grain”), Latin hordeum (“barley”), Old High German gersta (“barley”) (German Gerste) and Hittite [script needed] (karaš, “wheat, emmer-wheat”). Alternatively, a Mediterranean substrate word found also in Basque gari (“wheat”) and Old Georgian ქერი (keri, “barley”).

գարի • (gari)

1. barley
   • 5th century, Bible, Job 31.40:[1]

     Ապա փոխանակ ցորենոյ բուսցի եղիճ, եւ փոխանակ գարւոյ մորենի։

     Apa pʿoxanak cʿorenoy buscʿi ełič, ew pʿoxanak garwoy moreni.

     • Translation by Claude E. Cox

       then may nettles come forth instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley.

In Job, translates Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ).

• Armenian: գարի (gari)
• → Arabic: جَعْرَة‎ (jaʕra)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գարի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գարի”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “գարի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1940) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 199