rice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Small white or brown grains that are cooked and eaten as food.

   We had chicken and rice for dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   The plant that produces these grains, grown in wet fields.

   Rice is grown in flooded fields across much of Asia.

Common collocations

• rice cooker Noun + noun
• rice weevil Noun + noun

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi). Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east. Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ul…

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