Rye was called the grain of poverty.
Source: tatoeba (1533)
Rye
//ɹaɪ//
Synonyms for "rye" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(1 words)
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9 entriescoordinate
6 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
Translations
118 translations across 98 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- хьэпцӏий noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Albanian
2 entries- thekën (gheg) noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- thekër noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βρίζα noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Arabic
4 entries- جَاوْدَار noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- سويڭلة noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- سُلْت noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- شَيْلَم noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Armenian
2 entries- աշորա noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- տարեկան noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Asturian
1 entries- centén noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Avar
1 entries- огоб noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- çovdar noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Bashkir
1 entries- арыш noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Basque
1 entries- zekale noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Belarusian
1 entries- жы́та noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Breton
1 entries- segal noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ръж noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Catalan
1 entries- sègol noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Chechen
1 entries- ӏаьржа кӏа noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 黑麥 /黑麦 noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黑麥 /黑麦 noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Chuvash
1 entries- ыраш noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Cornish
1 entries- sugal noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- арыш noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Czech
1 entries- žito noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Danish
1 entries- rug noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Dargwa
1 entries- сусул noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Dutch
1 entries- rogge noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- уржа noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Esperanto
1 entries- sekalo noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Estonian
1 entries- rukis noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Faroese
1 entries- rugur noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Finnish
1 entries- ruis noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
French
1 entries- seigle noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Friulian
1 entries- siale noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Galician
2 entries- cebeira noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- centeo noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Georgian
1 entries- ჭვავი noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
German
1 entries- Roggen noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Greek
1 entries- σίκαλη noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Hebrew
1 entries- שיפון noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Hindi
1 entries- नीवारिका noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Hungarian
1 entries- rozs noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Icelandic
1 entries- rúgur noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Indonesian
1 entries- gandum hitam noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Irish
1 entries- seagal noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Italian
1 entries- segale noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Japanese
2 entries- ライムギ noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- 黒麦 noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Karelian
1 entries- ruis noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Komi-Permyak
1 entries- сю noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Komi-Zyrian
2 entries- рудзӧг noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- сю noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Korean
1 entries- 호밀 noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Lak
1 entries- сус noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Latgalian
1 entries- rudzi noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Latin
1 entries- sēcale noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Latvian
1 entries- rudzi noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Ligurian
1 entries- seiga noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Lithuanian
2 entries- rugiai noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- rugys noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Lombard
1 entries- segra noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- rež noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- žyto noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Macedonian
1 entries- ’рж noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Malay
1 entries- rai noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Malayalam
1 entries- ശീമവരക് noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Manx
1 entries- shoggyl noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Middle English
1 entries- rye noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Mòcheno
1 entries- rocken noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Māori
1 entries- rai noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- açar noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- baçîk noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- tarîgan noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- çewder noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- rug noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- rug noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Occitan
1 entries- segal noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Old English
1 entries- ryġe noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Old Norse
1 entries- rugr noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چاودار noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Persian
1 entries- چاودار noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Piedmontese
1 entries- seil noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Rogg noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Polish
1 entries- żyto noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Portuguese
1 entries- centeio noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Romagnol
1 entries- sēgval noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Romanian
1 entries- secară noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Russian
2 entries- жи́то noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- рожь noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- seagal noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rȃž noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- ра̑ж noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Slovak
2 entries- raž noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- žito noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Slovene
1 entries- ŕž noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Southern Altai
1 entries- арыш noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Spanish
1 entries- centeno noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Swedish
1 entries- råg noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Tagalog
1 entries- senteno noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Tatar
1 entries- арыш noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Turkish
1 entries- çavdar noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Tuvan
1 entries- көк-тараа noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Udmurt
1 entries- ӟег noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жи́то noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- rožka noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- žito noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lúa mạch đen noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Volapük
1 entries- sägul noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Walloon
3 entries- rigon noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- swele noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
- waessén noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Welsh
1 entries- rhyg noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
West-Frisian
1 entries- rogge noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Western Mari
1 entries- ыржа noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאָרן noun (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Americans eat lots of wheat, rye, and other grains.
Source: tatoeba (67533)
It happens that we have two copies of Catcher in the Rye.
Source: tatoeba (248187)
I am harvesting rye.
Source: tatoeba (1665422)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
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