millet

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪt

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
   • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 155:

     […] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’

2. (specifically) Common millet, in particular Panicum miliaceum.

• (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet), Urochloa ramosa (syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet), Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears, adlay millet), Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum), Setaria italica, Sorghum

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

• Appendix:Grains

• millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɛt/

millet (plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. [from 19th c.]
   • 1880, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 963:

     The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]

   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, page 14:

     […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 262:

     Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

millet

1. nation

From mil +‎ -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.jɛ/

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millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)

1. millet (grain)

• “millet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

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millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler or milel)

1. nation

   Synonym: ulus

   • 1972, Cemil Meriç, Yüz on bir yıl önce bir mayıs sabahı‎:

     Tagor için milletler yoktu, millet vardı. Acı çeken, dövüşen, düşüp kalkan, ve alın teriyle ıslanan çetin yolda durmadan ilerleyen millet: bütün insanların milleti.

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• millî

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “millet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “millet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)

1. nation

• milli (“national”)

• “millet” in Enedilim.com
• “millet” in Webonary.org