wheat

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Wheat.

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Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (cf. West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz 'white'. More at white. For semantic development, compare Welsh gwenith 'wheat', from gwenn 'white'.

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable; plural wheats)

1. (countable) any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

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Translations

grain

• Afrikaans: koring (af)
• Albanian: grurë f
• Arabic: قمح (ar) (qamḥ) m
• Armenian: ցորեն (hy) (c'oren) 
• Azeri: buğda (az)
• Bashkir: бойҙай (boyðay)
• Basque: gari (eu)
• Belarusian: пшаніца (be) (pšaníca) f 
• Bulgarian: пшеница (bg) (pšeníca) f 
• Burmese: ဂျုံ (my) (gyòun)
• Catalan: blat m
• Chickasaw: tili'ko' nihi'
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麥 (cmn), 麦 (cmn) (mài), 小麥 (cmn), 小麦 (cmn) (xiǎomài)

  Min Nan: 麥 (nan), 麦 (nan) (be̍h)

• Corsican: granu (co) m
• Czech: pšenice (cs) f
• Danish: hvede (da)
• Dutch: tarwe (nl) m
• Erzya: товзюро (tovzjuro)
• Esperanto: tritiko (eo)
• Estonian: nisu (et)
• Faroese: hveiti (fo) f and n
• Finnish: vehnä (fi)
• French: blé (fr) m, froment (fr) m
• Galician: trigo (gl) m
• Georgian: ხორბალი (ka) (xorbali) 
• German: Weizen (de) m
• Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 (ƕaiteis, hwaiteis)
• Greek: σιτάρι (el) (sitári) n 
• Hausa: álkámà
• Hebrew: חִטָּה (he) (khitá) f
• Hindi: गेहूँ (hi) (gehū̃)
• Hungarian: búza (hu)
• Icelandic: hveiti (is) n
• Ido: frumento (io)
• Indonesian: gandum (id)
• Irish: cruithneacht (ga) f
• Italian: frumento (it) m, grano (it) m
• Japanese: 小麦 (ja) (こむぎ, komugi)
• Kazakh: бидай (kk) (bïday) 
• Korean: 밀 (ko) (mil)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: genim (kmr) m

  Sorani: گەنم (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: буудай (ky) (buuday) 
• Lao: ເຂົ້າບະເລ (lo) (khao ba lē)
• Latgalian: kvīši

• Latin: triticum (la) n
• Latvian: kvieši (lv) m pl
• Lithuanian: kviečiai (lt) m pl
• Luxembourgish: Weess (lb) m
• Macedonian: пченица (mk) (pčénica) f
• Malay: gandum (ms), terigu (ms)
• Marathi: गहू (mr) (gahū)
• Mongolian: улаан буудай (mn) (ulaan buudaj) 
• Navajo: tłʼoh naadą́ą́ʼ
• Neapolitan: grano m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvete (nb)

  Nynorsk: kveite (nn)

• Old Church Slavonic: пьшєница (pĭšenica) f
• Old Norse: hveiti n
• Old Portuguese: triigo
• Persian: گندم (fa) (gandom)
• Polish: pszenica (pl) f
• Portuguese: trigo (pt) m
• Romanian: grâu (ro) m, grâne (ro) n pl
• Russian: пшеница (ru) (pšeníca) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пшеница (sh) f

  Roman: pšenica (sh) f

• Slovak: pšenica (sk) f
• Slovene: pšenica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pšenica f

  Upper Sorbian: pšeńca (hsb) f

• Spanish: trigo (es) m
• Swahili: ngano (class 9/10)
• Swedish: vete (sv) c
• Tajik: гандум (tg) (gandum) 
• Taos: łitǫ́ne
• Tatar: бодай (tt) (boday)
• Telugu: గోధుమ (gOdhuma)
• Thai: ข้าวสาลี (th) (kâao săa-lee)
• Turkish: buğday (tr)
• Turkmen: bugdaý (tk)
• Ukrainian: пшениця (uk) (pšenýcja) f 
• Uyghur: بۇغداي (ug)
• Uzbek: bug'doy (uz)
• Vietnamese: lúa mì (vi)
• Volapük: vuit (vo)
• Welsh: gwenith (cy) m
• West Frisian: weet (fy) c

colour

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گه‌نم ڕه‌نگ

• Marathi: गह्वाळ (gahvAL)

• Persian: گندمی (fa) (gandomi)
• Swahili: rangi ya ngano (sw)
• Telugu: గోధుమ రంగు (gOdhuma rangu)

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

colour

Derived terms

buckwheat cracked wheat durum wheat hard wheat Marquis wheat separate the wheat from the chaff shredded wheat soft wheat

starch wheat wheat belt wheat bread wheat flour wheat germ wheat rust wheatear wheaten

wheaten terrier wheatgrass wheatland wheatmeal wheatworm whole-wheat winter wheat

Related terms

• white

See also

aleurone bulgur dermatitis herpetiformis einkorn emmer

farina flour frumentaceous frumenty leghorn pani puri

semolina spelt tabbouleh udon zein Appendix:Colors