An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1a) Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group (e.g. a wheat crop, farmers harvest crop).

1b) The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place.

2. To harvest (TheFreeDictionary.com).

Etymology (EN): M.E. crop, croppe, from O.E. cropp “head or top of a sprout or herb, any part of a medicinal plant except the root,” also “bird’s craw,” cognate with O.H.G. kropf, Du. krop “crop.”

Etymology (PE): Kâšâr, literally “yield of cultivating,” from kâš, contratction of kâšt-, kâštan “to cultivate, plant, sow,”

• âr contraction of âvar present stem of âvardan “to bring; to cause, produce,” → format.