Millet vs Kaffir - What's the difference?
millet | kaffir | Derived terms |
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
* 2007 , Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain , Hurst & Co. 2007,
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
(South Africa, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
(English Citations of "kaffir")
Millet is a derived term of kaffir.
As nouns the difference between millet and kaffir
is that millet is any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world or millet can be (historical) a semi-autonomous confessional community under the ottoman empire, especially a non-muslim one while kaffir is (south africa|pejorative|offensive|ethnic slur) a black person.millet
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Hyponyms
* (food grains)Coordinate terms
*Derived terms
* barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white milletExternal links
* ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 14:
- in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
