# millet
## English
### 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”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪlɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪlət/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlɪt

#### Noun

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)
* 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.’
* (specifically) Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.

##### Hyponyms

* (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

##### Coordinate terms

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

##### Derived terms

* wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)
* adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi)
* African millet
* Australian millet (Panicum decompositum)
* barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.)
* black millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
* broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum)
* broomtail millet (Panicum miliaceum)
* browntop millet (Urochloa spp., syn. Brachiaria spp.)
* bulrush millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
* burgu millet (Echinochloa stagnina)
* Chinese millet (Setaria faberi)
* common millet (usually Panicum miliaceum)
* coracan millet (Eleusine coracana)
* finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
* fonio millet (Digitaria exilis)
* foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
* German millet (Setaria italica)
* gray millet (Lithospermum arvense)
* great millet (Sorghum spp.)
* Guinea millet (Urochloa deflexa)
* hog millet (Panicum miliaceum)
* Indian barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
* Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)
* Italian millet
* Japanese barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta)
* Japanese millet (Echinochloa esculenta, Echinochloa frumentacea)
* kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)
* little millet (Panicum sumatrense)
* millet butterflyfish (Chaetodon miliaris)
* millet skipper (Pelopidas spp.)
* milletgrass, millet grass (Milium spp.)
* native millet (Panicum decompositum)
* pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum)
* Polish millet (Digitaria sanguinalis)
* proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
* red millet (Panicum miliaceum)
* sawa millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
* shama millet Echinochloa colona)
* water millet
* white millet (Panicum miliaceum)

##### See also

* Appendix:Grains

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪlɛt/

#### Noun

millet (plural millets)
* (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.

##### Translations
## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

### Noun

millet
* nation

#### Derived terms

* milletçi (“nationalist”)
* milletçilik (“nationalism”)

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.jɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)
* millet (grain)

### Further reading

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

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /milˈlet/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mil‧let

### Noun

millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler or milel)
* nation
    Synonyms: ulus, el, halk
    Egemenlik kayıtsız şartsız milletindir!Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people!
** 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.For Tagore, there were no nations, just a single nation. A nation that suffered, fought, fell and stood back up, and continued tirelessly on a difficult road wet with brow sweat: the nation of all humans.

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
millet
milletler
definite accusative
milleti
milletleri
dative
millete
milletlere
locative
millette
milletlerde
ablative
milletten
milletlerden
genitive
milletin
milletlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
milletim
milletlerim
2nd singular
milletin
milletlerin
3rd singular
milleti
milletleri
1st plural
milletimiz
milletlerimiz
2nd plural
milletiniz
milletleriniz
3rd plural
milletleri
milletleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
milletimi
milletlerimi
2nd singular
milletini
milletlerini
3rd singular
milletini
milletlerini
1st plural
milletimizi
milletlerimizi
2nd plural
milletinizi
milletlerinizi
3rd plural
milletlerini
milletlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
milletime
milletlerime
2nd singular
milletine
milletlerine
3rd singular
milletine
milletlerine
1st plural
milletimize
milletlerimize
2nd plural
milletinize
milletlerinize
3rd plural
milletlerine
milletlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
milletimde
milletlerimde
2nd singular
milletinde
milletlerinde
3rd singular
milletinde
milletlerinde
1st plural
milletimizde
milletlerimizde
2nd plural
milletinizde
milletlerinizde
3rd plural
milletlerinde
milletlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
milletimden
milletlerimden
2nd singular
milletinden
milletlerinden
3rd singular
milletinden
milletlerinden
1st plural
milletimizden
milletlerimizden
2nd plural
milletinizden
milletlerinizden
3rd plural
milletlerinden
milletlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
milletimin
milletlerimin
2nd singular
milletinin
milletlerinin
3rd singular
milletinin
milletlerinin
1st plural
milletimizin
milletlerimizin
2nd plural
milletinizin
milletlerinizin
3rd plural
milletlerinin
milletlerinin :

#### Related terms

* milli
* milliyet
* milliyetçi
* milliyetçilik

### References

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

## Turkmen
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

### Noun

millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)
* nation

#### Derived terms

* milletçi (“nationalist”)
* milletçilik (“nationalism”)

#### Related terms

* milli (“national”)

### Further reading

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