rye

Meaning

1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
3. Rye bread.
4. Rye whiskey.
5. A drink of rye.
6. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
7. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
8. A disease of hawks.

Synonyms

rye whiskey

rye whisky

rye bread

Secale cereale

grain

bread

🍞

rye grain

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.