millet
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɪlət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Noun
[edit]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.
- 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 155:
- […] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’
- (specifically) Common millet, in particular Panicum miliaceum.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (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, Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum), Setaria italica, Sorghum
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Derived terms
[edit]- wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)
- adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi)
- Australian millet (Panicum decompositum)
- barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.)
- black millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- broomtail millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- browntop millet (Urochloa spp., syn. Brachiaria spp.)
- bulrush millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- burgu millet (Echinochloa stagnina)
- Chinese millet (Setaria faberi)
- 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 (Lithospermum arvense)
- great millet (Sorghum spp.)
- Guinea millet (Urochloa deflexa)
- hog millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- Indian barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
- Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)
- Italian millet
- Japanese barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta)
- Japanese millet (Echinochloa esculenta, Echinochloa frumentacea)
- kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)
- little millet (Panicum sumatrense)
- millet butterflyfish (Chaetodon miliaris)
- millet skipper (Pelopidas spp.)
- milletgrass, millet grass (Milium spp.)
- native millet (Panicum decompositum)
- pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum)
- Polish millet (Digitaria sanguinalis)
- proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- red millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- sawa millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
- shama millet Echinochloa colona)
- water millet
- white millet (Panicum miliaceum)
Translations
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]millet (plural millets)
- (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. [from 19th c.]
- 1880, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 963:
- The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 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, published 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
[edit]Crimean Tatar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Noun
[edit]millet
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mil + -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
- millet (grain)
Further reading
[edit]- “millet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler or milel)
- nation
- Synonyms: ulus, el, halk
- Egemenlik kayıtsız şartsız milletindir!
- Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people!
- 1972, Cemil Meriç, Yüz on bir yıl önce bir mayıs sabahı[1]:
- Tagor için milletler yoktu, millet vardı. Acı çeken, dövüşen, düşüp kalkan, ve alın teriyle ıslanan çetin yolda durmadan ilerleyen millet: bütün insanların milleti.
- For Tagore, there were no nations, just a single nation. A nation that suffered, fought, fell and stood back up, and continued tirelessly on a difficult road wet with brow sweat: the nation of all humans.
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “millet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “millet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Turkmen
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Noun
[edit]millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | millet | milletler |
accusative | milleti | milletleri |
genitive | milletiň | milletleriň |
dative | millete | milletlere |
locative | milletde | milletlerde |
ablative | milletden | milletlerden |
Derived terms
[edit]- milletçi (“nationalist”)
- milletçilik (“nationalism”)
Related terms
[edit]- milli (“national”)
Further reading
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *melh₂-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪlɪt
- Rhymes:English/ɪlɪt/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Andropogoneae tribe grasses
- en:Cynodonteae tribe grasses
- en:Grains
- en:Grasses
- en:Paniceae tribe grasses
- Crimean Tatar terms borrowed from Arabic
- Crimean Tatar terms derived from Arabic
- Crimean Tatar terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ل
- Crimean Tatar lemmas
- Crimean Tatar nouns
- French terms suffixed with -et
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Grains
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Arabic
- Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ل
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish terms with audio links
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Turkish terms with usage examples
- Turkish terms with quotations
- Turkmen terms borrowed from Arabic
- Turkmen terms derived from Arabic
- Turkmen terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ل
- Turkmen lemmas
- Turkmen nouns