foxtail millet

English

foxtail millet seed heads

Noun

foxtail millet (countable and uncountable, plural foxtail millets)

1. The second-most widely planted species of millet, Setaria italica, which is the most important species of millet in East Asia.

Synonyms

• (Setaria italica): Italian millet, Hungarian grass, dwarf setaria, foxtail bristle-grass, giant setaria, green foxtail, German millet, Hungarian millet.

Coordinate terms

• (species called millet): Guinea millet (Urochloa deflexa, syn. Brachiaria deflexa); browntop millet (Urolchloa ramosa, syn. Brachiaria ramosa); Adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi); Polish millet (Digitaria exilis), Japanese barnyard millet, Indian barnyard millet, Sawa millet, Burgu millet, barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.); finger millet (Eleusine coracana); proso millet, common millet, broom corn millet, hog millet, white millet (Panicum miliaceum); little millet (Panicum sumatrense); kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum); pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum)

Derived terms

• green foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)
• wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)

Translations

Echinochloa esculenta

• Finnish: japaninkananhirssi
• Korean: 피 (ko) (pi)
• Yami: kadai

Setaria italica

• Bengali: কাউন (bn) (kaun)
• Bulgarian: моха́р m (mohár)
• Catalan: mill italià, panís (ca), cua de guilla
• Central Bontoc: sammang
• Chagatai: قوناق (qonaq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小米 (zh) (xiǎomǐ), 穀子／谷子 (zh) (gǔzi)

• Czech: bér vlašský m, bér italský m, mohár m, čumíza
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: italianpantaheinä, tähkähirssi
• Galician: paínzo (gl) m, millo miúdo m
• Georgian: ღომი (ɣomi)
• German: Kolbenhirse f, Mohar m, Pfennich m (Steiermark), Mauchert m / Mäuchert m (Siebenbürgen)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μελίνη f (melínē)

• Gujarati: કંગ (kaṅg)
• Hungarian: muhar (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano: bikakaw, bukakaw
• Ivatan: rautnokara
• Japanese: 粟 (ja) (アワ, awa)
• Kannada: ನವಣೆ (kn) (navaṇe), ನವಣಕ್ಕಿ (navaṇakki)
• Kapampangan: borona, balantakan
• Kazakh: қонақ (qonaq)
• Korean: 조 (ko) (jo)
• Malayalam: തിന (ml) (tina)
• Maranao: tikap
• Polish: proso włoskie (pl) n, włośnica ber (pl) f, ber (pl) m
• Romanian: dughie (ro)
• Russian: мога́р (ru) (mogár), чуми́за (ru) (čumíza)
• Sanskrit: लता (sa) f (latā), भावज्ञा (sa) f (bhāvajñā), प्रियङ्गुका (sa) f (priyaṅgukā), शूद्रार्ता (sa) f (śūdrārtā), सर्वतःशुभा (sa) f (sarvataḥśubhā), पीततण्डुल (sa) m (pītataṇḍula), अत्यन्तसुकुमार (sa) m (atyantasukumāra), धनिक (sa) m (dhanika), रक्तकङ्गु (sa) m (raktakaṅgu), प्रियङ्गु (sa) m (priyaṅgu)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȕhār (sh) m, mȍhār m, bȃr (sh) m
• Slovak: mohár taliansky
• Slovene: laški mȗhvič m, bȃr m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: zornjaty włosanc m, bor m

• Tagalog: kulasan, tigbi
• Tamil: தினை (ta) (tiṉai)
• Tausug: turay
• Ternate: rore
• Ukrainian: чуми́за f (čumýza)

See also

• Eragrostis tef
• white fonio
• black fonio

References

• foxtail millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Setaria italica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Setaria italica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• foxtail millet at USDA Plants database