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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).[1]
rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
1831, Daniel Jay Browne, The Naturalist[1], volume 1, page 375:
Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.
1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice[2]:
Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
2014, V. S. Rao, Transgenic Herbicide Resistance in Plants[3]:
Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008].
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmír[4]:
The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
1922 April, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer[5], volume 25, number 4:
First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.
2000, R.K Singh, U.S. Singh, G.S. Khush, editors, Aromatic Rices[6]:
For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
1881, Mary Foote Henderson, Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving[7]:
Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.
1998, Noreen G. Dowling, Sustainability of Rice in the Global Food System[8]:
In sum, when a modern Japanese family and its members sit around the supper table eating their bowls of Japanese-grown rice, they are not simply indulging a gastronomic preference for short-grained and slightly sticky japonica rice over long-grained indica rice from Thailand.
2010, S. D. Sharma, Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History[9]:
On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (computing) An instance of customization of a user interface.
This is my first rice!
- Ambemohar
- arborio
- aromatic rice
- basmati
- beaten rice
- Bhutanese red rice
- black rice
- bora saul
- brown rice
- Calrose rice
- Camargue red rice
- carnaroli
- Champa rice
- chipped rice
- combination fried rice
- converted rice
- corn rice
- disco rice
- flattened rice
- glutinous rice
- golden rice
- jasmine rice
- jungle rice
- longevity rice
- Patna rice
- pounded rice
- pressed rice
- purple rice
- red rice
- samba rice
- scorched rice
- sticky rice
- sushi rice
- sweet rice
- this this rice
- two-dish rice
- uncooked rice
- unhusked rice
- waxy rice
- white rice
- Yangzhou fried rice
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
- ant rice
- Arborio rice
- arborio rice
- artificial rice
- baby rice
- black rice
- brewer's rice
- brewers' rice
- broken rice
- brown rice
- cheese and rice
- cook-up rice
- Coues' rice rat
- dirty rice
- economy rice
- flattened rice
- forbidden rice
- French rice
- fried rice
- fried rice syndrome
- glorified rice
- golden rice
- Hainanese chicken rice
- hanging rice
- hom mali rice
- hungry rice
- Indian rice
- iron rice bowl
- Italian rice ball
- Japanese rice ball
- jollof rice
- like white on rice
- longevity rice
- long rice
- Manchurian wild rice
- mealie rice
- Mexican rice
- mountain rice
- northern wild rice
- oily rice
- omu-rice
- omu rice
- Patna rice
- peas and rice
- polished rice
- pudding rice
- puffed rice
- purple rice
- red yeast rice
- rice and peas
- rice bag
- rice ball
- rice bean
- ricebird
- rice biscuit
- rice blast
- rice bowl
- rice burner
- rice cake
- rice car
- rice chaser
- rice Christian
- rice congee
- rice cooker
- rice cracker
- rice-cracker
- rice cutgrass
- rice eater
- rice-eater
- rice field
- rice flakes
- rice flour
- rice flower
- rice glue
- rice grass
- rice growing
- rice hen
- rice hull
- rice huller
- rice husk
- rice husker
- rice king
- rice leafhopper
- rice malt
- rice milk
- rice-mill
- rice mill
- rice moth
- rice nigger
- rice noodle
- rice out
- rice paddle
- rice paddy
- rice paddy herb
- rice paper
- rice-paper plant
- rice pounder
- rice pudding
- rice queen
- rice-queen
- ricer
- rice rat
- rice rocket
- rice shell
- rice-spirit
- rice stick
- rice stitch
- rice swift
- rice tenrec
- rice vinegar
- rice water
- rice weevil
- rice wine
- rice wine
- Spanish rice
- special fried rice
- sticky rice
- sweet fermented rice
- taco rice
- white on rice
- white rice
- wild rice
plants
- Abaza: прунджь (prundź)
- Abkhaz: абрынџь (abrəndž), апрынџь (apʼrəndž)
- Adyghe: пындж (pəndž)
- Afrikaans: rys (af)
- Akan: ɛmo
- Aklanon: paeay
- Albanian: oriz (sq) m
- Amharic: ሩዝ (ruzi)
- Arabic: أَرُزّ m (ʔaruzz), رُزّ (ar) m (ruzz)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܪܘܙܐ m (rūzā)
- Armenian: բրինձ (hy) (brinj)
- Assamese: ধান (dhan)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܘܼܙܵܐ m (ruzzā)
- Asturian: arroz m or f
- Atayal: pagay
- Avar: пиринчӏ (pirinčʼ)
- Bakhtiari: برنج (berenj)
- Balti: برس (bras)
- Bambara: malo
- Bashkir: дөгө (dögö)
- Basque: arroz, irris
- Belarusian: рыс m (rys), рыж m (ryž)
- Bengali: ভাত (bn) (bhat)
- Bikol Central: paroy (bcl)
- Brunei Malay: padi
- Bulgarian: ори́з (bg) m (oríz)
- Burmese: စပါး (my) (ca.pa:)
- Catalan: arròs (ca) m
- Catawba: kus sarak taaktce (literally "white wheat")
- Cebuano: humáy
- Central Melanau: padai
- Chichewa: mpunga
- Chinese:
- Coastal Kadazan: naig
- Cornish: ris
- Corsican: risu m
- Cuyunon: paray
- Czech: rýže (cs) f
- Danish: ris (da) c
- Dutch: rijst (nl) m
- Dyula: malo
- Esperanto: rizo, rizoplanto
- Estonian: riis
- Ewe: molu, mɔlu
- Faroese: rís (fo) n
- Finnish: riisi (fi), riisikasvi
- French: riz (fr) m
- Galician: arrós m, arroz (gl) m
- Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
- German: Reis (de) m
- Greek: όρυζα (el) f (óryza)
- Hausa: shìnkāfā (ha)
- Hebrew: אורז \ אֹרֶז (he) m (órez)
- Higaonon: humay
- Hiligaynon: humáy
- Hindi: चावल (hi) m (cāval), धान (hi) m (dhān), भात (hi) m (bhāt), तंडुल (hi) m (taṇḍul)
- Hungarian: rizs (hu)
- Iban: padi
- Icelandic: hrís (is) n
- Idoma: osikapa
- Igbo: osikapa (ig)
- Ilocano: págay
- Indonesian: padi (id)
- Ingrian: riissu
- Isoko: osikapa
- Italian: riso (it) m
- Ivatan: paray
- Japanese: 稲 (ja) (いね, ine)
- Javanese: pari (jv)
- Kabardian: прунж (kbd) (prunž)
- Kabuverdianu: arôs, arrôs
- Kapampangan: pale
- Kazakh: күріш (kürış)
- Khinalug: ппарынцӏ (pːarɨnc̣)
- Khmer: ស្រូវ (km) (srəw)
- Korean: 벼 (ko) (byeo)
- Krio: res
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: шалы (ky) (şalı)
- Laboya: pare
- Lao: ເຂົ້າ (lo) (khao)
- Latin: orȳza f
- Latvian: rīss (lv) m
- Lezgi: прунз (prunz)
- Lingala: loso
- Lithuanian: rỹžis m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Ries m
- Lü: ᦃᧁᧉ (ẋaw²)
- Luganda: omuceere
- Macedonian: ориз (mk) m (oriz)
- Malagasy: vary (mg)
- Malay: padi (ms)
- Malayalam: നെല്ല് (ml) (nellŭ)
- Maltese: ross m
- Manchu: ᡥᠠᠨᡩᡠ (handu)
- Maori: raihi (mi), raihi (mi)
- Marathi: भात (bhāt)
- Middle High German: rīs m or n
- Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
- Mongolian: тутарга (mn) (tutarga) (literary), будаа (mn) (budaa) (colloquially), цагаан будаа (cagaan budaa) (colloquially)
- Navajo: alóós
- Nepali: चामल (ne) (cāmal)
- Norman: riz (Guernsey)
- Norwegian:
- Nupe: cèǹkafa
- Occitan: ris (oc) m
- Odia: ଚାଉଳ (or) (cāuḷa)
- Old Javanese: pari
- Oromo: ruuzii
- Ossetian: пыры́ндз (pyrýnʒ)
- Ottoman Turkish: برنج
- Pangasinan: pagëy
- Persian: برنج (fa) (berenj)
- Polish: ryż (pl) m
- Portuguese: arroz (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਜੀਰੀ (jīrī), ਮੁੰਜੀ (muñjī)
- Quechua: arus
- Rohingya: soil
- Romanian: orez (ro) m
- Russian: рис (ru) m (ris)
- Rwanda-Rundi: umuceri
- Samoan: alaisa
- Sanskrit: तण्डुल (sa) m (taṇḍula)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: ၶဝ်ႈ (shn) (khāo)
- Sherpa: འབྲའ ('bra')
- Silesian: ryż m
- Sinhalese: වී (wī)
- Slovak: ryža (sk) f
- Slovene: riž (sl) m
- Somali: bariis (so)
- Sotho: raese
- Southern Altai: рис (ris)
- Spanish: arroz (es) m
- Swahili: mpunga
- Swedish: ris (sv) n
- Sylheti: ꠗꠣꠘ (dáno)
- Tagal Murut: parai
- Tagalog: palay (tl)
- Tajik: биринҷ (tg) (birinj)
- Tamil: நெல் (ta) (nel)
- Tarifit: aṛṛuẓ m
- Tausug: bugas, pay
- Telugu: వరి (te) (vari)
- Tetum: hare
- Thai: ข้าว (th) (kâao)
- Tibetan: འབྲས ('bras)
- Tigrinya: ሩዝ (ti) (ruze)
- Tlingit: kóox
- Tongan: laise
- Tsonga: rhayisi
- Turkish: pirinç (tr), düğü (tr)
- Turkmen: bürünç (tk), tüwi, şaly
- Uab Meto: ane
- Ubykh: p̒irinǰ
- Udi: бириндз (birinʒ)
- Ukrainian: рис m (rys), риж m (ryž)
- Unami: pèhpastèk (literally "that which swells")
- Urdu: چاول (ur) m (cāval)
- Uzbek: sholi (uz)
- Venetian: rixo m
- Vietnamese: lúa (vi), 穭
- Vilamovian: ryź m
- Volapük: risat (vo), risataplan (vo)
- Waray-Waray: paray
- Welsh: reis (cy) m
- West Frisian: rys
- Wolof: malo
- Xhosa: irayisi
- Yiddish: רײַז m or f (rayz)
- Yoruba: ìrẹsì, ráìsì
- Yup'ik: paraluruaq
- Zhuang: haeux
- Zulu: layisi
- Abaza: прунджь (prundź)
- Abkhaz: абрынџь (abrəndž), апрынџь (apʼrəndž)
- Acehnese: breuëh
- Adyghe: пындж (pəndž), пыдж (pədž) (Shapsug dialect)
- Afrikaans: rys (af)
- Albanian: oriz (sq) m
- Apache:
- Jicarilla: alalóos
- Arabic: أَرُزّ m (ʔaruzz), رُزّ (ar) m (ruzz)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܐܘܪܘܙܐ f (ʾōrūzā)
- Armenian: բրինձ (hy) (brinj)
- Assamese: ধান (dhan) (unpeeled), চাউল (saul) (peeled), ভাত (bhat) (peeled and cooked)
- Asturian: arroz m or f
- Avar: пиринчӏ (pirinčʼ)
- Azerbaijani: düyü (az)
- Bakhtiari: برنج (berenj)
- Basque: arroz
- Belarusian: рыс m (rys)
- Bengali: ধান (bn) (dhan) (uncooked), ভাত (bn) (bhat)
- Bikol Central: bagas (bcl) (raw seed), maluto (bcl) (cooked)
- Breton: riz
- Brunei Malay: nasi (cooked), baras (raw seed)
- Bulgarian: ори́з (bg) m (oríz)
- Burmese: (raw seed) ဆန် (my) (hcan), (cooked) ထမင်း (my) (hta.mang:)
- Canela: arỳjhy
- Catalan: arròs (ca) m
- Cebuano: bugas (raw seed) kan-on (cooked)
- Central Melanau: nasek (cooked), beraih (raw seed)
- Chechen: дуга (duga)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 米 (yue) (mai5) (raw seed), 飯/饭 (yue) (faan6) (cooked), 白飯/白饭 (baak6 faan6) (cooked)
- Dungan: быйми (bɨymi), ми (mi), фан (fan)
- Eastern Min: 米 (mi)
- Gan: please add this translation if you can
- Hakka: 禾仔 (vò-é)
- Mandarin: 米 (zh) (mǐ) (raw seed), 飯/饭 (zh) (fàn) (cooked), 米飯/米饭 (zh) (mǐfàn) (cooked), 白飯/白饭 (zh) (báifàn) (plain, cooked)
- Wu: 米 (raw seed), 飯/饭 (6ve) (cooked)
- Chuukese: rais
- Cuyunon: begas (raw seed) kanen (cooked)
- Czech: rýže (cs) f
- Dalmatian: rize
- Danish: ris (da) c
- Dhivehi: ހަނޑޫ (haⁿḍū), ބަތް (bat̊)
- Dutch: rijst (nl) m
- Esperanto: rizo
- Estonian: riis
- Faroese: rís (fo) n
- Fijian: kakana
- Finnish: riisi (fi)
- French: riz (fr) m
- Fula:
- Galician: arrós m,arroz (gl) m
- Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
- German: Reis (de) m
- Greek: ρύζι (el) n (rýzi)
- Ancient: ὄρυζα f (óruza)
- Hawaiian: laiki
- Hebrew: אורז \ אֹרֶז (he) m (órez)
- Higaonon: bugas
- Hiligaynon: bugas (raw seed), kan-on (cooked)
- Hindi: चावल (hi) m (cāval), धान (hi) m (dhān), भात (hi) m (bhāt), पुलाव (hi) m (pulāv), बिरयानी f (biryānī), तंडुल (hi) m (taṇḍul)
- Hungarian: rizs (hu)
- Iban: asi (cooked), beras (raw seed)
- Icelandic: hrísgrjón (is) n pl
- Ilocano: bagás (raw seed), innapúy , inapúy (cooked)
- Indonesian: beras (id) (raw seed), nasi (id) (cooked)
- Ingrian: riissu
- Interlingua: ris
- Irish: rís f
- Italian: riso (it) m
- Ivatan: yata (unhusked), inapuy (cooked)
- Japanese: 米 (ja) (こめ, kome) (raw seed), ご飯 (ja) (ごはん, gohan) (cooked), 飯 (ja) (めし, meshi) (informal), ライス (ja) (raisu)
- Javanese: beras (jv), uwos (jv) (raw seed), sego, sekul (cooked)
- Kabardian: прунж (kbd) (prunž)
- Kaingang: aronh
- Kambera: uhu
- Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕಿ (kn) (akki)
- Kapampangan: abias, abyas (raw seed), nasi (cooked)
- Karachay-Balkar: cez (cez)
- Kazakh: күріш (kürış)
- Khinalug: ппарынцӏ (pːarɨnc̣)
- Khmer: ស្រូវ (km) (srəw) (unhusked), អង្ករ (km) (ʼɑngkɑɑ) (husked, uncooked), បាយ (km) (baay) (cooked)
- Kikuyu: mũceere class 3
- Kongo: lôso
- Konkani: तांदुळ (tānduḷ) (uncooked), शीत (śīta) (cooked)
- Korean: 쌀 (ko) (ssal) (uncooked), 밥 (ko) (bap) (cooked), 진지 (ko) (jinji) (honorific)
- Kuna: oros
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: күрүч (ky) (kürüc), шалы (ky) (şalı)
- Laboya: kadodo (cooked), wiha (uncooked)
- Ladino: arroz m
- Lao: ເຂົ້າ (lo) (khao)
- Latin: oryza f
- Latvian: rīsi (lv), rīss (lv) m, rīsi (lv) m pl
- Lezgi: дуьгуь (dügü)
- Lingala: loso
- Lithuanian: rỹžis m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Ries m
- Lü: ᦃᧁᧉ (ẋaw²)
- Luxembourgish: Räis m
- Macedonian: ориз (mk) m (oriz)
- Maguindanao: begas, palay, emay
- Malagasy: vary (mg), angeky
- Malay: beras (ms) (raw seed), nasi (ms) (cooked - ready to eat)
- Malayalam: അരി (ml) (ari) (uncooked), ചോറ് (ml) (cōṟŭ) (cooked)
- Maltese: ross m
- Manchu: ᠪᡠᡩ᠋ᠠ (buda)
- Mansaka: bugas
- Maori: raihi (mi)
- Maranao: begas
- Marathi: तांदुळ (tānduḷ), भात (bhāt) (cooked)
- Minangkabau: bareh (min) (raw seed), atah (min) (skinned raw seed), nasi (min) (cooked)
- Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi), ორზა (orza)
- Mon: ပုၚ် (mnw) (peng)
- Mongolian: тутарга (mn) (tutarga), цагаан будаа (cagaan budaa)
- Navajo: alóós
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: ris n
- Norwegian:
- Nuosu: ꍯ (che)
- Occitan: ris (oc) m
- Odia: ଚାଉଳ (or) (cāuḷa), ଭାତ (or) (bhāta)
- Ojibwe: waabanoomin, manoomin
- Old Polish: ryż m
- Old Tamil: 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici)
- Oromo: ruuzii
- Ossetian: пыры́ндз (pyrýnʒ)
- Pali: (cooked) odano m
- Pangasinan: bëlas (raw seed) niluto (cooked)
- Pashto: وريژې m pl (wríže)
- Pawnee: rikiispiiruus
- Persian: برنج (fa) (berenj), پلو (fa) (polow) (cooked), چلو (fa) (čelow)
- Plautdietsch: Riess m
- Polish: ryż (pl) m
- Portuguese: arroz (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਚਾਵਲ (cāval), ਚੌਲ m (caul)
- Quechua: arus
- Romanian: orez (ro) n
- Russian: рис (ru) m (ris)
- Samoan: alaisa
- Sango: loso
- Sanskrit: व्रीहि (sa) m (vrīhi)
- Santali: ᱫᱟᱠᱟ (daka)
- Scottish Gaelic: rus m, rìs m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: ၶဝ်ႈ (shn) (khāo)
- Silesian: ryż m
- Sindhi: چانور
- Sinhalese: බත් (bat) (cooked), හාල් (hāl) (husked, uncooked)
- Slovak: ryža (sk) f
- Slovene: riž (sl) m
- Somali: bariis (so)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: rajs m
- Sotho: raese
- Spanish: arroz (es) m
- Sundanese: béas (su), sangu
- Swahili: mpunga (raw seed in husk), mchele (sw) (husked seed), wali (sw) (cooked)
- Swedish: ris (sv) n
- Sylheti: ꠗꠣꠘ (dáno) (unpeeled), ꠌꠣꠃꠟ (saul) (peeled), ꠜꠣꠔ (báto) (peeled and cooked)
- Tagalog: bigas (tl) (raw seed), kanin (tl) (cooked)
- Tajik: биринҷ (tg) (birinj)
- Talysh: bırz
- Tamil: அரிசி (ta) (arici) (uncooked), சோறு (ta) (cōṟu)
- Tarantino: rise m
- Tarifit: aṛṛuẓ
- Tat: bürünc
- Tatar: дөге (tt) (döge)
- Tausug: humay
- Telugu: వడ్లు (te) (vaḍlu), బియ్యం (te) (biyyaṁ) (raw/husked seed), అన్నము (te) (annamu) (cooked)
- Ternate: bira
- Tetum: foos (picked), etu (cooked)
- Thai: ข้าว (th) (kâao)
- Tibetan: འབྲས ('bras)
- Tocharian B: klu
- Tongan: laise
- Turkish: pilav (tr), düğü (tr)
- Turkmen: bürünç (tk)
- Uab Meto: ane
- Ubykh: p̒irinǰ
- Udi: бириндз (birinʒ)
- Ukrainian: рис m (rys), риж m (ryž)
- Urdu: چاول (ur) m (cāval)
- Uyghur: گۈرۈچ (ug) (gürüch)
- Uzbek: guruch (uz)
- Venetian: rixo m
- Vietnamese: gạo (vi), cơm (vi) (cooked)
- Vilamovian: ryź m
- Volapük: risat (vo)
- Waray-Waray: lu-to
- Welsh: reis (cy) m
- West Coast Bajau: buas (raw seed)
- West Frisian: rys
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: beɣas
- Western Panjabi: چول (pnb) (col)
- White Hmong: mov
- Wolof: tiep
- Xhosa: irayisi class 9/10
- Yiddish: רײַז m or f (rayz)
- Zhuang: haeux
rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
1881, Maria Parloa, Miss Parloa's New Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking[10]:
Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
1961, Potato Chipper, volume 21, page 88:
Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
2015, Lorna Seilstad, As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters Book #3): A Novel:
Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out.
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
1894, John Merle Coulter, Botanical Gazette[11], page 505:
In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild rice and the Ojibway people:
When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.
2002, David Laursen, A Capital Place: Reminiscences of a Sandy Lake Boyhood[12]:
As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
1886 July 24, “Echoes of the Week”, in The Illustrated London News[13], volume 89, page 90:
So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
2002, Helen Argers, The Gilded Lily[14]:
The couple was well riced and sent on their way.
2006, Timothy Lee, Billy: A Gay Trilogy:
As the reception ended the two newlyweds were riced to death and fled into an awaiting getaway car and drove off...followed by a stream of tin cans.
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.
rice (plural rices)
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
1834, John Johnstone, A systematic treatise on the theory and practice of draining land[15]:
To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.
1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm[16], volume 1:
Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.
1881 July 16, Notes and Queries (6)[17], volume 6:
"Gilbert White, the well-known naturalist, in a letter dated Selborne, Oct. 4th, 1775, says, 'Our people here, you know, call coppice-wood or hedge-wood rice or rise. Is this word still in use in that neighbourhood? And is it also known in Surrey?"
- (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.
1892, John Cordy Jeaffreson, editor, Middlesex County Records[18], volume 4:
[…] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]
1895, Richard Marsden, Cotton Weaving: Its Development, Principles, and Practice[19]:
The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.
1977, Marianne Straub, Hand weaving and cloth design:
Swift (rice) Skein holder, hank holder.
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rice
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of riche (“rich”)
rice
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of riche (“realm”)
From Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“kingdom, realm”).
rīċe n
- kingdom, empire
Rōmāna rīċe
- the Roman Empire
Godes rīċe
- the Kingdom of God
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
...and se gramlica casere dioclytianus is gedon of his rice...
- ...and the furious emperor Diocletian is deposed from his empire,...
- reign
- authority, dominion
Declension of rīċe (strong ja-stem)
- bisċoprīċe (“diocese”)
- cynerīċe (“kingdom”)
- ēþelrīċe (“native realm”)
- fiþerrīċe (“tetrarchy”)
- Francrīċe (“France”)
- heofonrīċe (“kingdom of heaven”)
- rīċedōm (“dominion”)
- ricsian (“to rule, prevail”)
- Rōmāna rīċe (“Roman Empire”)
From Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“mighty, rich”).
rīċe (superlative riċost)
Declension of rīċe — Strong
Declension of rīċe — Weak
rice m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rice)
rice
- inflection of rizar: