The Proto-Turkic word *āŕ
Word *āŕ
Meaning few, a little

Comments
S. A. Starostin, A. V. Dybo, O. A. Mudrak - An Etymological Dictionary of Altaic Languages, 2003, Brill

Other words that might be of interest
*ạbuč- ‘handful’, *čok ‘many, to gather, multiply, group, crowd’, *köp ‘many’