# farro
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian farro. Doublet of far.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfæɹəʊ/
** Homophone: farrow
* (US) IPA: /ˈfæɹoʊ/, /ˈfɑːroʊ/
** Homophones: farrow, pharaoh, Faro

### Noun

farro (countable and uncountable, plural farros)
* Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
** 2007 February 14, Florence Fabricant, “For a Chilly Winter Day, Beef Pie With Polenta Crust”, in New York Times‎:At the Fountain restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, near the institute, squab stuffed with fava beans and farro, an Egyptian grain, comes gilded with gold leaf […] .
** 2019, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition, page 338:All three farros are sold as a whole grain.

#### Related terms

* farrago

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* farre

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin far.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfa.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfa.ro]

### Noun

farro m (plural farros)
* course type of grain

### References

* “farro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaro/ [ˈfa.rʊ]
* Rhymes: -aro
* Hyphenation: fa‧rro

### Etymology 1

From Latin far.

#### Noun

farro m (plural farros)
* barleymeal

### Etymology 2

Unknown

#### Noun

farro m (plural farros)
* goldfinny wrasse

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “farro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “farro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “farro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *farrum, from Latin far (“emmer”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfar.ro/
* Rhymes: -arro
* Hyphenation: fàr‧ro
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

farro m (plural farri)
* emmer (Triticum dicoccum)
    Synonym: farro medio
* spelt (Triticum spelta)
    Synonyms: granfarro, spelta

#### Derived terms

* granfarro (“spelt”)
* farro medio (“emmer wheat”)
* farro piccolo (“einkorn wheat”)
* farrotto

#### Descendants

* → English: farro

### Further reading

* farro on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$

### Anagrams

* forra

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *farʀō, from Proto-Germanic *farzô.

### Noun

farro m
* bull

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: pharre, varre
** German: Farre

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈfa.ʁu/ [ˈfa.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.ʁo/ [ˈfa.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa.ʁu/
* Rhymes: -aʁu
* Hyphenation: far‧ro

### Noun

farro m (uncountable)
* emmer (Triticum turgidum, a species of wheat)

## Sidamo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɾːo/
* Hyphenation: far‧ro

### Noun

farro m
* tail

#### Declension
### References

* Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38
* Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “farro”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaro/ [ˈfa.ro]
* Rhymes: -aro
* Syllabification: fa‧rro

### Noun

farro m (plural farros)
* emmer (grain)

### Further reading

* “farro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10