different between millet vs oillet

English

Etymology 1

From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek ?????? (melín?, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hyponyms

• (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet), Urochloa ramosa (syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet), Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears, adlay millet), Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum

Coordinate terms

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

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ???? (millet), from Persian ???? (mellat), from Arabic ??????? (milla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?t/

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

French

Etymology

From mil +? -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.j?/

Noun

millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)

1. millet (grain)

Further reading

• “millet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (milla).

Noun

millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)

1. nation

   Synonym: ulus

English

Alternative forms

• oylet

Etymology

Borrowed from French œillet, from œil (“eye”), from Latin oculum, accusative singular of oculus.

Noun

oillet (plural oillets)

1. (medieval architecture) A round hole or circle with which an opening for an arrowslit terminates.

Anagrams

• Elliot, tollie