rye

See also: Rye

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ryġe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *rúgʰis. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: wry

Noun

rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)

1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
3. Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
4. (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:

     I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.

5. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
6. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
7. A disease of hawks.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• ryegrass

Translations

the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food

• Albanian: thekër (sq) f
• Arabic: سُلْت (sult), شَيْلَم (šaylam), جَاوْدَار (jāwdār)

  Moroccan Arabic: سويڭلة f (swigla)

• Armenian: տարեկան (hy) (tarekan), աշորա (hy) (ašora)
• Azerbaijani: çovdar (az)
• Bashkir: арыш (arış)
• Basque: zekale
• Belarusian: жы́та n (žýta)
• Breton: segal (br)
• Bulgarian: ръж (bg) f (rǎž)
• Catalan: sègol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黑麥／黑麦 (hak¹ mak⁶), 黑麦 (hak¹ mak⁶)

  Mandarin: 黑麥／黑麦 (zh) (hēimài), 黑麦 (zh) (hēi mài)

• Chuvash: ыраш (yraš)
• Cornish: sugal
• Czech: žito (cs) n
• Danish: rug (da) c
• Dargwa: сусул (susul)
• Dutch: rogge (nl) m
• Esperanto: sekalo
• Estonian: rukis (et)
• Faroese: rugur m
• Finnish: ruis (fi)
• French: seigle (fr) m
• Galician: centeo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭვავი (č̣vavi)
• German: Roggen (de) m
• Greek: σίκαλη (el) f (síkali)

  Ancient: βρίζα f (bríza)

• Hebrew: שיפון (shifón)
• Hindi: नीवारिका f (nīvārikā)
• Hungarian: rozs (hu)
• Icelandic: rúgur m
• Indonesian: gandum hitam
• Irish: seagal m
• Italian: segale (it) f
• Japanese: ライムギ (raimugi), 黒麦 (くろむぎ, kuromugi)
• Karelian: ruis
• Komi-Permyak: сю (śu)
• Korean: 호밀 (homil)
• Kurdish: , , , , ,
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• Latgalian: rudzi
• Latin: secale f
• Latvian: rudzi (lv) m pl
• Lithuanian: rugys m, rugiai m pl
• Macedonian: ’рж f (’rž)
• Malay: rai
• Manx: shoggyl f
• Maori: rai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rug (no) m

  Nynorsk: rug m

• Old English: ryġe m
• Old Norse: rugr m
• Persian: چاودار (fa) (čâvdâr)
• Plautdietsch: Rogg m
• Polish: żyto (pl) n
• Portuguese: centeio (pt) m
• Romanian: secară (ro) f
• Russian: рожь (ru) f (rožʹ), жи́то (ru) n (žíto) (regional)
• Scottish Gaelic: seagal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̑ж m

  Roman: rȃž (sh) m

• Slovak: žito (sk) n, raž (sk) f
• Slovene: ŕž (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žyto n, rež f

  Upper Sorbian: rožka f, žito n

• Spanish: centeno (es) m
• Swedish: råg (sv) c
• Tagalog: senteno
• Tatar: арыш (tt) (arış)
• Turkish: çavdar (tr)
• Udmurt: ӟег (dźeg)
• Ukrainian: жи́то (uk) f (žýto)
• Vietnamese: lúa mạch đen
• Volapük: sägul (vo)
• Walloon: swele (wa), waessén (wa) m, rigon (wa) m
• Welsh: rhyg m
• West Frisian: rogge (fy)
• Yiddish: קאָרן m (korn)

rye whisky — see rye whisky

rye bread — see rye bread

carraway — see carraway

ryegrass — see ryegrass

Anagrams

• -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre