rice
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as foodCereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
Recorded UK: Association Shtooka, Judith Franck, CC BY 3.0 US, Wikimedia Commons · Recorded US: Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
» We only have a little rice left.
Wir haben nur wenig Reis übrig. — Oldman
У нас лишилося лише трохи рису. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRTranslations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
By meaning 1
Examples
767 sentencesWe only have a little rice left.
У нас лишилося лише трохи рису. — deniko
deWir haben nur wenig Reis übrig. — Oldman
The rice is delicious.
Рис смачний. — deniko
ruРис вкусный. — marafon
deDer Reis ist lecker. — Ennocb
Did you taste the rice?
Ти куштував рис? — deniko
ruВы пробовали рис? — odexed
deHast du den Reis probiert? — karstenenh
Meaning
8 senses(uncountable)Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
Reis
рисris
рисrys, рижryž
(uncountable)The seeds of this plant used as food.
Reis
рисris
рисrys, рижryž
(countable)A specific variety of this plant.
More meanings 5
The seeds of this plant used as food.
(countable, uncountable)The seeds of wild rice, used as food.
(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.
- English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
- United States playwright (1892-1967)
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
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.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: ricesSynonyms
5 synonyms- English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944):Sir Tim RiceTimothy Miles Bindon Rice
- United States playwright (1892-1967):Elmer RiceElmer Leopold RiceElmer Reizenstein
Word family
97 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
- curry rice
- lot of rice
- price of rice
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.