millet
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪt/
The English word “millet” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
- Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
- A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
Etymology
From 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).
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