millet
English
Etymology 1
From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Noun
millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)
- Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Hyponyms
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Coordinate terms
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Derived terms
- adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi)
- Australian millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.)
- black millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- broomtail millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- browntop millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp., syn. Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- bulrush millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- burgu millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Chinese millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- common millet (usually Panicum miliaceum)
- coracan millet (Eleusine coracana)
- finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
- fonio millet (Digitaria exilis)
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
- German millet (Setaria italica)
- gray millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- great millet (Sorghum spp.)
- Guinea millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- hog millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- Indian barnyard millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)
- Japanese barnyard millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Japanese millet(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- little millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- millet butterflyfish (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- millet skipper (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- milletgrass, millet grass (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- native millet(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Polish millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- red millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- sawa millet (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
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- white millet (Panicum miliaceum)
Translations
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Further reading
- millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish millet, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian ملت (mellat), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Pronunciation
Noun
millet (plural millets)
- (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.
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:
Translations
French
Etymology
From mil + -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation
Noun
millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
- millet (grain)
Further reading
- “millet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Noun
millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)
Synonyms
- (nation): ulus
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- Rhymes:English/ɪlɪt
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- en:Andropogoneae tribe grasses
- en:Cynodonteae tribe grasses
- en:Grains
- en:Grasses
- en:Paniceae tribe grasses
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- fr:Grains
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