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gjysm|ara'k adj [Pej] half-grown, stunted

gjysm|a're nf (Old) 1 measure of weight for grain usually equal to twenty kilograms; container holding this much grain 2 container holding half a liter

gjysm|a|ta'r
III§ nm [Hist] 1 poor farmer who takes turns with another farmer using a yoke of oxen to which each has contributed one ox (half a yoke) for plowing 2 (Hist) sharecropper who paid half his earnings to the owner of the land/livestock: métayer
IV§ adj on the métayage system, in métayage