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 edit
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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
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Noun edit
millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler or milel)
- nation
- Synonym: ulus
- 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.
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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 |