Rice

Etymology
ris: < riso: <  oriza: <  ὄρυζα: < ; compare Sanskrit व्रीहि:, Tamil அரிசி:.

Noun

 * 1) Cereal plants (Oryza sativa) of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
 * 2) The seeds of this plant used as food.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: oriz
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: arroz, irris
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Burmese: ထမင်း
 * Catalan: arròs
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, riisikasvi
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: όρυζα (oríza)
 * Hebrew: אורז (órez)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: pari
 * Khmer: (srou)
 * Korean: 벼 (byeo)
 * Lao:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: നെല്ല് (nellu)
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: भात (bhāt)
 * Mongolian: тутрага (tutraga)


 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਚਾਵਲ (ćāval), ਚੌਲ (ćaul)
 * Rohingya: soil
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ताणडुल
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: рижа, пиринач
 * Roman: riža, pirinač
 * Shan: (khaw3)
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: raese
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: நெல் (nel)
 * Telugu: (vari)
 * Tetum: hare
 * Thai: (khâao)
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: pirinç
 * Turkmen: bürünç, tüwi
 * Uab Meto:
 * Urdu: چاول
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: risat, risataplan
 * West Frisian: rys
 * Yiddish: רײַז (rayz)
 * West Frisian: rys
 * Yiddish: רײַז (rayz)


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: arroz
 * Belarusian: рыс
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ထမင်း
 * Catalan: arròs
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  , ,  ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ρύζι (rízi)
 * Hebrew: אורז (órez)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hrísgrjón
 * Indonesian: beras (raw seed), nasi (cooked)
 * Interlingua: ris
 * Irish: rís
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  ,
 * Javanese: beras, uwos (raw seed), sego, sekul (cooked)
 * Khmer: (srou),  (bai)
 * Korean: 쌀 (ssal); 밥 (bap) (cooked)
 * Kuna: oros


 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: (raw seed),  (cooked)
 * Malayalam: അരി (ari) (uncooked), ചോറ് (chOru) (cooked)
 * Marathi: तांदुळ (tā.ndull), भात (bhāt) (cooked)
 * Mon: (peng)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: ,
 * Persian: (birinj)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਚਾਵਲ (ćāval), ਚੌਲ (ćaul)
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: rus
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: riža, pirinač
 * Shan: (khaw3)
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: raese
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: (raw seed),  (cooked)
 * Tamil: அரிசி (arici) (uncooked), சோறு (cOru)
 * Telugu: వడ్లు (vaDlu), బియ్యం
 * Tetum: foos (picked), etu (cooked)
 * Thai: (khâao)
 * Turkish:
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian:, риж
 * Urdu: چاول
 * Vietnamese: gạo; cơm (cooked)
 * Volapük: risat
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: rys
 * Yiddish: רײַז (rayz)


 * : àlbárkà kumbe
 * : බත් (bat)
 * : risat

Verb

 * 1) to squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces
 * 2) to throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
 * 3) to belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state
 * 4) to harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.

Derived terms

 * arborio rice
 * brown rice
 * golden rice
 * Indian rice
 * jollof rice
 * mealie rice
 * Patna rice
 * brewer's rice
 * broken rice


 * rice bowl
 * rice grass
 * rice leafhopper
 * rice paper
 * rice pudding
 * rice rat
 * rice weevil


 * ricebird
 * rice-paper plant
 * ricer
 * Spanish rice
 * sticky rice
 * white rice
 * wild rice

Related terms

 * Menominee
 * rijsttafel
 * risotto

Anagrams

 * eric, Eric

Etymology
, from, from (compare Irish rí:), from. Cognates include Old Saxon rīki (Dutch rijk), Old High German rīhhi (German Reich, reich), Old Norse ríki n, ríkr adj (Swedish rike n, rik adj), Gothic 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹 n, 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin rex.

Noun

 * 1) power, authority, dominion
 * 2) kingdom, empire

Adjective

 * 1) powerful, mighty; rich

Descendants

 * English rich

Verb


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