millet
/ˈmɪlɪt/US/ˈmɪlət/
millet noun: any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Noun (1)
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.
- […] 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.’1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 155
- Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
Noun (2)
IPA/ˈmɪlɛt/
millet (plural millets)
- A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
- The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]1880, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 963
- […] 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.2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, page 14
Proper noun capitalized: Millet
Millet
millet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
millet in Hindi
- any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
- बाजरा bājrā
- community in the Ottoman Empire
- मिल्लत millat
millet in Tamil
- any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
- வரகு varaku
millet in Marathi
- बाजरी
millet in Urdu
- any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
- باجرہ bājrā, باجرا bājrā
More languagesFewer languages
- millet in Bengali
- বাজরা
- millet in Malayalam
- തിന, വരക്, ചാമ
- millet in Kannada
- ರಾಗಿ, ನವಣೆ, ಜೋಳ, ಸಾವೆ
- millet in Punjabi
- ਬਾਜਰਾ bājrā
- millet in Gujarati
- બાજરી, બાજરા
- millet in Odia
- ବାଜରା
- millet in Sanskrit
- दूर्वा dū́rvā
- millet in Tagalog
- dawa
- millet in Arabic
- دَخْن daḵn, ملَة, مل, مِلَّة milla
- millet in Persian
- ارزن arzan, الم alom, ملت
- millet in Vietnamese
- kê
- millet in Myanmar
- ပြောင်း praung:
Examples of millet in a sentence
- Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.
- Chinese black vinegar is made by fermenting a mixture of rice, wheat, and millet or sorghum.
- (2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity.
Forms of millet
| plural | millets |
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Origin of millet
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”). Not related to مِلَّة (milla).
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Words formed from millet
- adlay millet
- African millet
- Australian millet
- barnyard millet
- black millet
- broomcorn millet
- broomtail millet
- browntop millet
- bulrush millet
- burgu millet
- Chinese millet
- common millet
- coracan millet
- finger millet
- fonio millet
- foxtail millet
- German millet
- gray millet
- great millet
- Guinea millet
- hog millet
- Indian barnyard millet
- Indian millet
- Italian millet
- Japanese barnyard millet
- Japanese millet
- kodo millet
- little millet
- millet butterflyfish
- milletgrass
- millet grass
- milletmeal
- millet skipper
- native millet
- pearl millet
- Polish millet
- proso millet
- red millet
- sawa millet
- shama millet Echinochloa colona)
- Siberian millet
- water millet
- white millet
- wild foxtail millet
- wood millet
Words that rhyme with millet
Questions about millet
- What does millet mean?
- Millet means any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
- What is millet in Hindi?
- Millet in Hindi is बाजरा (bājrā), मिल्लत (millat). See Millet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is millet?
- Millet can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce millet?
- Millet is pronounced /ˈmɪlɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of millet?
- The plural of millet is millets.
Words near millet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: millet (page history and authors); Millet (page history and authors); millet (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); millet (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); millet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); millet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); millet (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); millet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); दूर्वा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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