English

Proper noun

Millet

1. A surname​.
2. A town in Alberta, Canada

English

pearl millet in the field

Ripe head of proso millet

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪt

Noun

millet ‎(uncountable)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hyponyms

• (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa), Brachiaria ramosa, Coix lacryma-jobi, Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Translations

External links

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

Etymology 2

From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ملت ‎(millet), from Persian ملت ‎(mellat), from Arabic مِلَّة ‎(milla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɛt/

Noun

millet ‎(plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 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 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.

Translations

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.jɛ/

Noun

millet m ‎(usually uncountable, plural millets)

1. millet (grain)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ملت ‎(millet).

Noun

millet ‎(definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)

1. nation

Synonyms

• (nation): ulus