millet

English

Wikipedia

pearl millet in the field

Ripe head of proso millet

Etymology 1

From French millet; ultimately from Latin milium, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₁- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melinē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlɪt

Noun

millet (uncountable)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.

Hyponyms

• (food grains): Brachiaria deflexa, Brachiaria ramosa, Coix lacryma-jobi, Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Panicum ramosum, Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Urochloa deflexa, Urochloa ramosa, sorghum

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

terms derived from millet (noun)

pearl millet foxtail millet proso millet common millet broom corn millet hog millet white millet finger millet

barnyard millet kodo millet little millet Japanese millet Guinea millet browntop millet

Translations

any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food

• Albanian: mel (sq) m
• Arabic: دخن (ar) (daxn) m
• Armenian: կորեկ (hy) (korek)
• Aromanian: meljiu (rup)
• Bashkir: тары (tarï)
• Belarusian: проса (be) (prósa) n, пшано (be) (pšanó) n
• Bulgarian: просо (bg) (próso) n
• Catalan: mill (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小米 (cmn) (xiǎomǐ)

• Czech: proso (cs) n
• Dalmatian: mail m
• Danish: hirse (da)
• Dutch: gierst (nl) m and f
• Erzya: суро (suro)
• Esperanto: milio (eo)
• Finnish: hirssi (fi)
• French: millet (fr) m
• Friulian: mei
• German: Hirse (de) f
• Greek: κεχρί (el) (kechrí) n
• Hebrew: דֹּחַן (he) m
• Hungarian: köles (hu)
• Italian: miglio (it) m

• Japanese: キビ (ja) (kibi)
• Korean: 기장 (ko) (gijang)
• Latin: milium (la)
• Macedonian: просо (mk) (próso) n
• Norwegian: hirse (no) m
• Occitan: melh (oc)
• Persian: ارزن (fa) (arzan)
• Polish: proso (pl) n
• Portuguese: milheto (pt) m, milhete (pt) m
• Quechua: mihu (qu)
• Romanian: mei (ro) m
• Russian: просо (ru) (próso) n, пшено (ru) (pšenó) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: просо (sh) n

  Roman: proso (sh) n

• Slovak: proso (sk) n
• Slovene: proso (sl) n
• Spanish: mijo (es) m
• Swedish: hirs (sv) c
• Tamil: வரகு (ta) (varaku)
• Turkish: darı (tr)
• Ukrainian: просо (uk) (próso) n, пшоно (uk) (pšonó) n
• Vietnamese: cây kê (vi), (grain) kê (vi)

See also

• Millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Millet on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Millet

Etymology 2

From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic ملة (milla(t)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪlɛt/

Noun

millet (plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:

     […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 262:

     Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.

Translations

community in the Ottoman Empire

• Arabic: ملة (ar) f, مل (ar) m, milla (ar)
• Ottoman Turkish: ملت (millet)

• Persian: ملت (fa)
• Turkish: millet (tr), milletler (tr) pl

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French

Etymology

From mil +‎ -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mi.jɛ/, X-SAMPA: /mi.jE/

Noun

millet m

1. millet (grain).

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ملة (mílla, “religious community”).

Noun

millet

1. nation

Synonyms

• (nation): ‎ulus‎