# PA (barr)

> barr- 'wheat, threshed grain'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: barr
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*barr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1797/index.md>) 'wheat'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *bār* — bār 'clean, threshed grain', Gen 41:35–49 (HALOT 153)
- Arabic: *burr* — burr 'wheat' (HALOT 153)
- Epigraphic South Arabian: *br* — br 'wheat' (HALOT 153)

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): PA 1 — single sign with 1
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): PA 1 — roster category logogram (unread)
- [ZA 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10a/index.md>): PA 1 — Logogram/abbreviation (unresolved)
- [ZA 12a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA12a/index.md>): PA 64
- [ZA 12b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA12b/index.md>): PA 40
- [ZA 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA16/index.md>): PA 6
- [ZA 21a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA21a/index.md>): \]PA 5

## Commentary

Single-sign commodity logogram: PA writes the ba- of barr- 'wheat, threshed grain', Hebrew bār (Gen 41:35–49; HALOT 153). Standalone commodity (16×, 5 sites) in bulk quantities, 64 and 40 on ZA 12a/b, clustering with TI (figs). After GRA, PA is the measure parīsu (GRA+PA); *304+PA 3×. On HT 8a PA takes KI-oil 3½ in a list of recipients, an abbreviation there. Rival: parīsu standing alone. One sign, no phonetic complement.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln

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