millet
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated…Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
» Can pigeons eat millet?
Чи можна голубам пшоно?
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Hirse
про́соpróso, пшено́pšenó
про́соpróso, пшоно́pšonó
(countable, specifically, uncountable)Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
(historical)A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
- small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
- French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
- any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Examples
6 sentencesCan pigeons eat millet?
Чи можна голубам пшоно? — Ahha
Give me one millet dumpling, please.
He fed the chickens millet.
deEr fütterte den Hühnern Hirse. — Augustus
The rich man bought a Millet.
A lot of these soils are destroyed from growing tobacco. So, growing a crop like millet helps rejuvenate them.
Translations
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Origin
From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimatelFrom 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).
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Forms
plural: milletsSynonyms
1 synonyms- French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875):Jean Francois Millet
Word family
15 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable