Millet

Noun

 * 1) Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.

Hyponyms

 * Brachiaria deflexa, Brachiaria ramosa, Coix lacrima-jobi, Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Panicum ramosum, Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Urochloa deflexa, Urochloa ramosa, sorghum

Derived terms

 * pearl millet
 * foxtail millet
 * proso millet
 * common millet
 * broom corn millet
 * hog millet
 * white millet
 * finger millet


 * barnyard millet
 * kodo millet
 * little millet
 * Japanese millet
 * Guinea millet
 * browntop millet

Noun

 * 1)  A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
 * 2) * 2007, a common Serbian Orthodox Church [was] the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies. — Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain (Hurst & Co. 2007, p. 14)

Thesaurus
breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, frumenty, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, loblolly, mush, oatmeal, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, rolled oats, wheatflakes

Etymology 1
From millet:, from  milium:

Etymology 2
From millet:, from   (milla).

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 小米 (xiǎomǐ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hirse
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: суро (suro)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κεχρί (kekhrí)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: キビ (kibi)
 * Korean: 기장 (gijang)
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: hirse
 * Persian: ارزن
 * Polish:
 * Quechua: mihu
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * Arabic: ملة, مل,
 * Ottoman Turkish: ,


 * Persian: ملة
 * Turkish:, milletler

Noun

 * 1) millet (grain).

Etymology
From an earlier, now dialectal mil: < milium:

Noun

 * 1) nation

Etymology
From  (mílla), religious community.

Synonyms

 * ulus