rice

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
4. (ethnic, humorous, slang, slur, uncountable) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) An instance of customization of a user interface.

Verb

1. (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
2. (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
3. (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
4. (transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)

Synonyms

paddy

meal

rice plant

sticky

uncooked rice

corn

🌽

wild

cultivated rice

raw

cooked rice

unhulled

food

🍽️

flour

grain

ream

semolina

smile

😄

squeeze

squeeze out

tweet

uncooked

white rice

wring out

wring from

Yagi

rice seedling

rice grain

kuku

burgundy rice

boiled rice

round shaped rice

paddy rice

kind of extract of wheat

annual

ant eggs

cereals

cooked

ear of corn

etc.

extort

firewood

gruel

hemp

husked rice

impact

meter

metre

press

Translations

riz

🍚

arroz

🍚

Reis

🍚

riso

rijst

🍚

arroz

🍚

ρύζι

arròs

🍚

Oryza sativa

pirinç

🍚

oryza

όρυζα

أرز

رز

🍚

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rys

Cognate with Pahlavi: blnc

Cognate with Northern Kurdish: riz

Cognate with Zaza: riz

Cognate with Sanskrit: व्रीहि

Cognate with Hebrew: אורז

Cognate with Old Tamil: 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺

Inherited from Middle English: ris

Inherited from Old English: hrīs

Cognate with Scots: reise

Cognate with Western Frisian: riis

Cognate with Dutch: rijs

Cognate with German: Reis

Cognate with Swedish: ris

Cognate with Icelandic: hrís

In summary

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 ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
Doublet of arroz.