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Mongolian etymology :

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Proto-Mongolian: *arbaj
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: barley
Russian meaning: ячмень
Written Mongolian: arbai (L 49)
Middle Mongolian: arbǝi (HY 8), arbăi, ārbăi (MA 104, 253)
Khalkha: arvaj
Buriat: arbaj
Kalmuck: arwǟ, arwā
Ordos: arwǟ
Dongxian: apa
Monguor: šbǝ̄ 'spelt' (SM 370)
Mogol: arfɛi, arfā (Ramstedt 1906)
Comments: KW 15, TMN 2, 24. Mongor may reflect a trace of the originally unvoiced stop in the intervocalic cluster. Mong. > Tuva arvaj.
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Altaic etymology :

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Proto-Altaic: *àrp`á
Nostratic: Nostratic
Meaning: barley, millet
Russian meaning: ячмень, просо
Turkic: *arpa
Mongolian: *arbaj
Tungus-Manchu: *arpa
Japanese: *àpá
Comments: EAS 90, KW 15, Poppe 87. АПиПЯЯ 67. The Mong. form cannot be explained as a Turkism (despite TMN 2, 24, Щербак 1997, 100). The Turkic form is sometimes compared with Proto-Iran. *arba- (corresponding to Gr. alphi), cf. East Iranian forms going back to *arpasyā- (or *arbasyā) (Стеблин-Каменский 1982, 23), but it is not identical (loss of the final syllable is hard to explain); on the other hand, the Jpn. parallel is a strong argument in favour of the Altaic origin of the Turkic form.
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Turkic etymology :

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Proto-Turkic: *arpa
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: barley
Russian meaning: ячмень
Old Turkic: arpa (OUygh.), abra (late OUygh.)
Karakhanid: arpa (MK, KB)
Turkish: arpa
Tatar: arpa
Middle Turkic: arpa (Sangl.)
Uzbek: arpa
Uighur: a(r)pa
Azerbaidzhan: arpa
Turkmen: arpa
Khakassian: arba
Oyrat: arba
Halaj: arpa
Chuvash: orba
Kirghiz: arpa
Kazakh: arpa
Noghai: arpa
Bashkir: arpa
Balkar: arpa
Gagauz: arpa
Karaim: arpa
Karakalpak: arpa
Salar: arfa (ССЯ 292)
Kumyk: arpa
Comments: EDT 198, VEWT 27, ЭСТЯ 1, 176-177, TMN 2, 24, Лексика 460, Егоров 27, Федотов 2, 286. Turk. > Hung. árpa, see Gombocz 1912.
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Tungus etymology :

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Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *arpa
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: barley; oats
Russian meaning: ячмень; овес
Literary Manchu: arfa
Comments: ТМС 1, 52. Despite its isolated nature, the Manchu word is certainly archaic and can hardly be explained as a borrowing < Mong. arbai, despite Rozycki 20.
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Japanese etymology :

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Proto-Japanese: *àpá
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: millet
Russian meaning: просо
Old Japanese: apa
Middle Japanese: àfá
Tokyo: áwa
Kyoto: àwá
Kagoshima: awá
Comments: JLTT 388.
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Nostratic etymology :

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Eurasiatic: *HarṗV
Meaning: crops
Indo-European: Hitt. harpas, harpijas 'feast of harvest'
Altaic: *àrp`á
References: ND 1886 *qarP_V 'to harvest' (+ Sem.).
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