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Millet

//ˈmɪlɪt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in Alberta, Canada.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world. countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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. 2
    A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. historical

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

  3. 3
    small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica wordnet
  4. 4
    Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum. countable, specifically, uncountable
  5. 5
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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

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