rice
pronunciation
How to pronounce rice in British English:
UK [raɪs]
How to pronounce rice in American English:
US [raɪs]
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- Noun:
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
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- Verb:
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
Word Origin
- rice
- rice: [13] The word rice is presumably, like the plant it names, of oriental origin; its ancestor may well be represented in Sanskrit vrīhi-. It first appeared in Europe as Greek órūza. This passed into Latin as oryza, and eventually spread throughout the languages of Europe: French riz, Italian riso, Spanish arroz, German reis, Dutch rijst, Swedish and Russian ris, Welsh reis, Lithuanian rysai, English rice, etc.
- rice (n.)
- mid-13c., from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin oriza, from Greek oryza "rice," via an Indo-Iranian language (compare Pashto vriže, Old Persian brizi), ultimately from Sanskrit vrihi-s "rice." The Greek word is the ultimate source of all European words (Welsh reis, German reis, Lithuanian rysai, Serbo-Croatian riza, Polish ryż, etc.). Introduced 1647 in the Carolinas. Rice paper (1822), originally used in China, Japan, etc., is made from straw of rice.
Example
- 1. Which we can get from bread , rice and noodles .
- 2. He wished to grow a new type of rice .
- 3. Bangladesh and indonesia joined the rush on rice orders .
- 4. If using rice , simmer until rice is done .
- 5. The type of rice is also critical .