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rice water

rice water noun: a weak gruel obtained by draining boiled rice in water until it dissolves, used as food for invalids or as a hair treatment.

Noun

rice water (uncountable)

  1. A weak gruel obtained by draining boiled rice in water until it dissolves, used as food for invalids or as a hair treatment.

rice water meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Odia

rice water in Hindi

rice water
काँजी kāñjī

rice water in Tamil

கஞ்சி, ஆறுமாதக்காடி, பெரும்பானை மோர், புழுதண்ணி

rice water in Gujarati

water being gotten after boiling cleaned rice
ઓસામણ osāmaṇ

rice water in Odia

rice water
ଭାତୁଆଣି bhātuāṇi
More languagesFewer languages
rice water in Assamese
মাৰ mar
rice water in Tagalog
am
rice water in Indonesian
tajin

Questions about rice water

What does rice water mean?
Rice water means a weak gruel obtained by draining boiled rice in water until it dissolves, used as food for invalids or as a hair treatment.
What is rice water in Hindi?
Rice water in Hindi is काँजी (kāñjī). See Rice water meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rice water?
Rice water is a noun.

Words near rice water in the dictionary

  1. rice tenrec
  2. rice tenrecs
  3. rice vermicelli
  4. rice vinegar
  5. rice vinegars
  6. rice water
  7. rice weevil
  8. rice weevils
  9. rice wine
  10. rice wines
  11. Rice's theorem

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rice water (page history and authors); काँजी (Hindi) (page history and authors); rice water (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଭାତୁଆଣି (Odia) (page history and authors); মাৰ (Assamese) (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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