How to say "harvest" in Japanese

• 収穫しゅうかくJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe general word for 'harvest': it covers both the act of gathering crops and the crop gathered, and is the safe choice in most farming and seasonal contexts.
  私わたしたちはみな収穫しゅうかくの手伝てつだいをした。↗

  We all helped with the harvest.
• 刈り取るかりとるCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbA verb: to harvest in the physical sense of cutting down standing crops such as grain. Choose it when 'harvest' is the action, alongside its fellow senses 'mow' and 'reap'.
  まいた種たねは自分じぶんで刈り取かりとらなければならない。↗

  As a man sows, so he shall reap.
• 刈り入れかりいれCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA noun for the harvesting itself — the work, and by extension the time, of cutting and bringing in the crop. It points to the fieldwork rather than to the yield.
  家いえ中ちゅうが力ちからを合あわせて麦むぎの刈かり入いれをしました。↗

  The whole family helped harvest the wheat.
• 実入りみいりCommon
  nounTreats the harvest as the crop that has actually come in — the ripened grain or fruit and its amount. It is the yield side of 'harvest', often judged as good or poor.
• 作柄さくがらCommon
  nounNot the harvest as an event but the crop conditions — how well the year's crops have turned out. Use it when assessing the harvest as good, poor or average.
  今年ことしは米べいの作柄さくがらは良よさそうだ。↗

  This year promises a good harvest of rice.

Use 収穫 as the all-purpose word for a harvest or crop; 「刈り取る」 is the verb for reaping, 「刈り入れ」 the act or season of bringing crops in, while 「実入り」 and 作柄 concern the yield and its quality.

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• 収穫しゅうかくharvest
• 刈り取るかりとるto mow
• 刈り入れかりいれharvest
• 実入りみいりcrop
• 作柄さくがらcrop (conditions)
• 作況さっきょうcrop (conditions)
• 刈るかるto cut (grass, hair, etc.)
• ハーベストharvest
• 刈り入れるかりいれるto harvest
• 収穫物しゅうかくぶつharvest
• 穫るとるto harvest (a crop)
• 取れ高とれだかcrop
• 生り物なりものfarm products
• 作さくharvest
• 取り入れるとりいれるto harvest
• 幸さちharvest
• 実りみのりcrop
• 刈り込むかりこむto reap (a crop) and put into storage
• 取るとるto pick (e.g. flowers)