millet
See also: Millet
English
pearl millet in the field
Ripe head of proso millet
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French millet; ultimately from Latin milium, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Noun
millet (uncountable)
- Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Hyponyms
- (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa), Brachiaria ramosa, Coix lacryma-jobi, Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum
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Translations
any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
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Etymology 2
From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Persian ملت (mellat), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɛt/
Noun
millet (plural millets)
- (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 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 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.
- 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:
Translations
community in the Ottoman Empire
French
Etymology
From mil + -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.jɛ/
Noun
millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
- millet (grain)
Further reading
- “millet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet).
Noun
millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)
Synonyms
- (nation): ulus
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