millet

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈmɪlət/
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• rhymes with -ɪlɪt
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• /ˈmɪlɛt/
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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).

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mel — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Southern Altai: тараан (taraan) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Southern Altai: тару (taru) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Arabic: دَخْن (daḵn) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Arabic: إيلان (ʔīllān) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Archi: тӏукӏ (tʼukʼ) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Armenian: կորեկ (korek) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Aromanian: melj — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Aromanian: meljiu — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Azerbaijani: darı — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Bashkir: тары (tarı) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Basque: artatxiki — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Belarusian: про́са (prósa) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Belarusian: пшано́ (pšanó) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Bulgarian: просо́ (prosó) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Burmese: ပြောင်း (praung:) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Catalan: mill — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Chinese Mandarin: 小米 (xiǎomǐ) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Czech: proso — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Dalmatian: mail — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Danish: hirse — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Daur: shijim — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Daur: nariem — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Daur: pisgee — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Dutch: gierst — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Erzya: суро (suro) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Esperanto: milio — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Faroese: hirsi — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Finnish: hirssi — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• French: millet — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• French: mil — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Friulian: mei — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Galician: millote — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Galician: paínzo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Galician: millo miúdo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Georgian: ფეტვი (peṭvi) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• German: Hirse — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Greek: κεχρί (kechrí) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ancient Greek: κέγχρος (kénkhros) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ancient Greek: πάσπαλος (páspalos) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Hebrew: דֹּחַן — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Hindi: बाजरा (bājrā) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Hungarian: köles — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Icelandic: hirsi — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ido: milieto — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Irish: muiléad — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Italian: miglio — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Japanese: 黍 (kibi) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Javanese: ꦗꦸꦮꦮꦸꦠ꧀ (juwawut) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Kaitag: мичи́ (mičí) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Kazakh: тары (tary) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Komi-Zyrian: проса (prosa) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Korean: 기장 (gijang) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Central Kurdish: ھەرزن (herzin) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Northern Kurdish: herzin — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Southern Kurdish: ھەرزەن (herzen) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Latin: milium — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Laz: ფატი (paťi) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Macedonian: просо (proso) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Manchu: ᠵᡝ (je) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Māori: mirete — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Eastern Mari: тар (tar) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Mingrelian: ფატი (paṭi) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Mongolian: шар будаа (šar budaa) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Norwegian: hirse — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Occitan: melh — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ossetian: йӕуу (jæwu) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Persian: ارزن (arzan) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Persian: الم (alom) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Piedmontese: mei — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Plautdietsch: Hieezh — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Polish: proso — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Portuguese: milheto — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Portuguese: milhete — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Portuguese: painço — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Punjabi: ਬਾਜਰਾ (bājrā) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Quechua: mihu — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Romanian: mei — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Russian: про́со (próso) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Russian: пшено́ (pšenó) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Serbo-Croatian: про̏со — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Serbo-Croatian: prȍso — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Slovak: proso — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Slovene: prosó — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Lower Sorbian: jagły — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Lower Sorbian: jaglicki — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Lower Sorbian: jałki — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Lower Sorbian: pšoso — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Spanish: mijo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Spanish: panizo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Spanish: millo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Spanish: borona — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Svan: ფეტუ̂ (peṭû) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Swahili: mtama — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Swedish: hirs — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tabasaran: дукӏ (duḳ) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tagalog: dawa — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tamil: வரகு (varaku) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tausug: dawa — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tibetan: ཁྲེ (khre) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tocharian B: lyekṣye — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tocharian B: yap — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Tofa: дараа — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Turkish: darı — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Turkish: akdarı — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ottoman Turkish: داری (darı) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Udmurt: тари (tari) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ukrainian: про́со (próso) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Ukrainian: пшоно́ (pšonó) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Urdu: باجرہ (bājrā) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Urdu: باجرا (bājrā) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Venetan: méjo — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Vietnamese: kê — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Walloon: milet — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Welsh: miled — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Yiddish: הירזש (hirzh) — any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
• Arabic: ملَة — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Arabic: مل — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Arabic: مِلَّة (milla) — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Hindi: मिल्लत (millat) — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Persian: ملت — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Polish: millet — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Turkish: millet — community in the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Turkish: ملت (millet) — community in the Ottoman Empire