paddy

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English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

From Irish Pád(raig) (“Patrick”) + English -y.

Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”).

Perhaps after the paddy bird, or egret.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Irish: Páidín — nickname for Patrick
• Polish: Irlandczyk — nickname for Patrick
• Assamese: ধান (dhan) — rice unmilled
• Bengali: ধান (dhan) — rice unmilled
• Central Bikol: pasi — rice unmilled
• Central Bikol: tipasi — rice unmilled
• Bulgarian: арпа (arpa) — rice unmilled
• Burmese: စပါး (ca.pa:) — rice unmilled
• Burmese: ကောက် (kauk) — rice unmilled
• Cebuano: pasi — rice unmilled
• Cebuano: tipasi — rice unmilled
• Chinese Mandarin: 稻 (dào) — rice unmilled
• Finnish: kuorimaton riisi — rice unmilled
• Finnish: paddy — rice unmilled
• French: paddy — rice unmilled
• French: riz paddy — rice unmilled
• Gujarati: ધાન સાળ ડાંગર (sāḷ) — rice unmilled
• Hindi: धान (dhān) — rice unmilled
• Ilocano: pagay — rice unmilled
• Indonesian: padi — rice unmilled
• Italian: risone — rice unmilled
• Japanese: 稲 (ine) — rice unmilled
• Javanese: pari — rice unmilled
• Kapampangan: pale — rice unmilled
• S'gaw Karen: ဘု (bu) — rice unmilled
• Kazakh: шалы (şaly) — rice unmilled
• Korean: 벼 (byeo) — rice unmilled
• Malay: padi — rice unmilled
• Malayalam: നെല്ല് (nellŭ) — rice unmilled
• Polish: ryż niełuskany — rice unmilled
• Punjabi: ਝੋਨਾ (jhonā) — rice unmilled
• Russian: ри́с-па́дди (rís-páddi) — rice unmilled
• Russian: необру́шенный ри́с (neobrúšennyj rís) — rice unmilled
• Russian: ри́с-сыре́ц (rís-syréc) — rice unmilled
• Sinhalese: කුඹුර (kumbura) — rice unmilled
• Spanish: arroz con cáscara — rice unmilled
• Spanish: arroz en cáscara — rice unmilled
• Tagalog: palay — rice unmilled
• Telugu: వడ్లు (vaḍlu) — rice unmilled
• Telugu: అరికెలు (arikelu) — rice unmilled
• Thai: ข้าวเปลือก (kâao-bplʉ̀ʉak) — rice unmilled
• Turkish: çeltik — rice unmilled
• Ottoman Turkish: چلتیك (çeltik) — rice unmilled
• Welsh: reis cibynnog — rice unmilled
• Acehnese: blang — wet land where rice grows
• Afrikaans: rys veld — wet land where rice grows
• Albanian: orizore — wet land where rice grows
• Arabic: حَقْل اَلْأَرُزّ (ḥaql al-ʔaruzz) — wet land where rice grows
• Assamese: ধাননি (dhanoni) — wet land where rice grows
• Banjarese: pahumaan — wet land where rice grows
• Belarusian: рысавыя палі (rysavyja pali) — wet land where rice grows
• Bengali: ধানজমি (dhanjômi) — wet land where rice grows
• Central Bikol: kabasan — wet land where rice grows
• Central Bikol: paruyan — wet land where rice grows
• Bulgarian: оризище (orizište) — wet land where rice grows
• Burmese: လယ် (lai) — wet land where rice grows
• Catalan: arrossar — wet land where rice grows
• Cebuano: humayan — wet land where rice grows
• Cebuano: kahumayan — wet land where rice grows
• Cebuano: pilapil — wet land where rice grows
• Chinese Cantonese: 稻田 (dou6 tin4) — wet land where rice grows
• Chinese Mandarin: 稻田 (dàotián) — wet land where rice grows
• Chinese Mandarin: 水田 (shuǐtián) — wet land where rice grows
• Czech: rýžové pole — wet land where rice grows
• Danish: rismark — wet land where rice grows
• Dutch: rijstveld — wet land where rice grows
• Esperanto: rizejo — wet land where rice grows
• Estonian: riisipõld — wet land where rice grows
• Finnish: riisipelto — wet land where rice grows
• French: rizière — wet land where rice grows
• Galician: arrozal — wet land where rice grows
• German: Reisfeld — wet land where rice grows
• Greek: ορυζώνας (oryzónas) — wet land where rice grows
• Hawaiian: loʻi — wet land where rice grows
• Hebrew: שדה אורז — wet land where rice grows
• Hindi: धान का क्षेत्र (dhān kā kṣetra) — wet land where rice grows
• Hungarian: rizsföld — wet land where rice grows
• Icelandic: hrísgrjónaakur — wet land where rice grows
• Indonesian: sawah — wet land where rice grows
• Indonesian: sawah padi — wet land where rice grows
• Ingrian: riissupelto — wet land where rice grows
• Italian: risaia — wet land where rice grows
• Japanese: 田 (ta) — wet land where rice grows
• Japanese: 水田 (suiden) — wet land where rice grows
• Japanese: 田んぼ (tanbo) — wet land where rice grows
• Javanese: sawah — wet land where rice grows
• Khmer: ស្រែ (srae) — wet land where rice grows
• Korean: 논 (non) — wet land where rice grows
• Korean: 답 (dap) — wet land where rice grows
• Korean: 수전 (sujeon) — wet land where rice grows
• Lao: ນາ (nā) — wet land where rice grows
• Lao: ນາເຂົ້າ (nā khao) — wet land where rice grows
• Lithuanian: lietinimas — wet land where rice grows
• Lü: ᦓᦱ (naa) — wet land where rice grows
• Macedonian: оризово поле — wet land where rice grows
• Malagasy: akotry — wet land where rice grows
• Malay: sawah — wet land where rice grows
• Malay: sawah padi — wet land where rice grows
• Malayalam: നെല്പാടം (nelpāṭaṁ) — wet land where rice grows
• Malayalam: പാടം (pāṭaṁ) — wet land where rice grows
• Māori: māra — wet land where rice grows
• Norwegian: rismark — wet land where rice grows
• Persian: شالیزار (šâlizâr) — wet land where rice grows
• Persian: گرنجار (gorenjâr) — wet land where rice grows
• Persian: برنجار (berenjâr) — wet land where rice grows
• Polish: pole ryżowe — wet land where rice grows
• Portuguese: arrozal — wet land where rice grows
• Romanian: orezărie — wet land where rice grows
• Russian: ри́совое по́ле (rísovoje póle) — wet land where rice grows
• Serbo-Croatian: рижино поље — wet land where rice grows
• Serbo-Croatian: пиринчано поље — wet land where rice grows
• Serbo-Croatian: rižino polje — wet land where rice grows
• Serbo-Croatian: pirinčano polje — wet land where rice grows
• Shan: ၼႃး (náa) — wet land where rice grows
• Sikkimese: ཆུ་ཞིང (chu zhing) — wet land where rice grows
• Spanish: arrozal — wet land where rice grows
• Sundanese: sawah — wet land where rice grows
• Swedish: risfält — wet land where rice grows
• Tagalog: palayan — wet land where rice grows
• Tamil: நெல் வயல் (nel vayal) — wet land where rice grows
• Tày: nà — wet land where rice grows
• Thai: นา (naa) — wet land where rice grows
• Thai: นาข้าว — wet land where rice grows
• Northern Thai: ᨶᩣ — wet land where rice grows
• Tulu: ಬೆನ್ನಿ (benni) — wet land where rice grows
• Turkish: pirinç tarlası — wet land where rice grows
• Turkish: çeltik tarlası — wet land where rice grows
• Ottoman Turkish: چلتیك (çeltik) — wet land where rice grows
• Vietnamese: ruộng lúa — wet land where rice grows
• Volapük: risataläned — wet land where rice grows
• Welsh: cae reis — wet land where rice grows
• Zhuang: naz — wet land where rice grows