Meaning
8 senses(uncountable)Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
Reis
рисris
рисrys, рижryž
(countable)A specific variety of this plant.
(uncountable)The seeds of this plant used as food.
Reis
рисris
рисrys, рижryž
grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
The seeds of this plant used as food.
(countable, uncountable)The seeds of wild rice, used as food.
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
(ethnic, humorous, slang, slur, uncountable)The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An instance of customization of a user interface.
This is my first rice!
(Ireland, Scotland, dialectal)A twig or stick.
(obsolete)A bobbin or spool.
Examples
769 sentencesThey eat a lot of rice.
Вони їдять багато рису. — deniko
ruОни едят много риса. — Balamax
deSie essen viel Reis. — kolonjano
Do you eat rice every day?
Ти їси рис кожного дня? — deniko
ruТы ешь рис каждый день? — odexed
deIsst du jeden Tag Reis? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Would you like some more rice?
Ти хотів би ще рису? — deniko
How often do you eat rice?
Як часто ти їси рис? — deniko
ruКак часто вы едите рис? — marafon
I eat rice almost every day.
Я їм рис майже щодня. — deniko
ruЯ ем рис почти каждый день. — Selena777
deIch esse fast jeden Tag Reis. — wolfgangth
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from ByzantineFrom Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to have come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.
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Forms
plural: ricesSynonyms
5 synonyms- United States playwright (1892-1967):Elmer RiceElmer Leopold RiceElmer Reizenstein
- English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944):Sir Tim RiceTimothy Miles Bindon Rice
Word family
108 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- eat rice
- eat fried rice
- rice cooker
- a rice cooker
- brown rice
- rice every day
- eat curry rice
- fried rice
- eats brown rice
- eat rice every
- curry rice
- price of rice