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millet
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)
- 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)
- (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 *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.j?/
Noun
millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
- 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)
- nation
- Synonym: ulus
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pseudocereal
English
Alternative forms
- pseudo-cereal
Etymology
pseudo- +? cereal
Noun
pseudocereal (plural pseudocereals)
- Any plant that, although not belonging to the grass family, produces seeds that are used to make flour.
- Hyponyms: buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth
- 2006, Franc Bavec, Martina Bavec, Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 65
Translations
Further reading
- pseudocereal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Portuguese
Noun
pseudocereal m (plural pseudocereais)
- pseudocereal (plant whose seeds are used to make flour, but which does not belong to the grass family)
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