proso

English

Noun

proso (uncountable)

1. Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop.
   • 1973, Dan Herndon Jordan, Soil Survey of Cherokee, Gilmer, and Pickens Counties, Georgia:

     Examples are corn, sorghum, wheat, oats, millet, soybeans, and proso.

See also

• proso millet

Anagrams

• Spoor, roops, sopor, spoor, sporo-

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech proso, from Proto-Slavic *proso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈproso]
• Hyphenation: pro‧so

Noun

proso n

1. panicum, panicgrass, any member of the genus Panicum
2. millet (grain)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• jáhla f

Further reading

• proso in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• proso in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.zo/
• Rhymes: -ɔzo
• Hyphenation: prò‧so

Verb

proso

1. first-person singular present indicative of prosare

Anagrams

• rospo, sporo-

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *proso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.sɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔsɔ
• Syllabification: pro‧so

Noun

proso n

1. panicgrass, panicum, millet (any grass of the genus Panicum or its grains), especially:
   1. proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)

Declension

Declension of proso

	singular	plural
nominative	proso	prosa
genitive	prosa	pros
dative	prosu	prosom
accusative	proso	prosa
instrumental	prosem	prosami
locative	prosie	prosach
vocative	proso	prosa

Further reading

• proso in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• proso in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *proso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prôso/
• Hyphenation: pro‧so

Noun

prȍso n (Cyrillic spelling про̏со)

1. millet (grain)

Declension

Declension of proso

	singular
nominative	proso
genitive	prosa
dative	prosu
accusative	proso
vocative	proso
locative	prosu
instrumental	prosom

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *proso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɔsɔ]

Noun

proso n (genitive singular prosa, nominative plural prosá, genitive plural pros, declension pattern of mesto)

1. panicum, panicgrass, any member of the genus Panicum
2. millet (grain)

Declension

Declension of proso

	singular	plural
nominative	proso	prosá
genitive	prosa	pros
dative	prosu	prosám
accusative	proso	prosá
locative	prose	prosách
instrumental	prosom	prosami

Further reading

• “proso”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Upper Sorbian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *porsę.

Noun

proso n

1. piglet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *proso.

Noun

proso n

1. millet

Further reading

• proso in Hornjoserbsko-němski Słownik