wheat

See also: Wheat

English

Wheat

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːt/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ʍiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

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Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

grain

• Adyghe: коцы (kʷocə)
• Afrikaans: koring
• Albanian: grurë (sq) m, grûnë m (gheg)
• Amharic: ስንዴ (sənde)
• Arabic: قَمْح m (qamḥ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قمح m (ʔamḥ)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَمْح m (gamḥ, qamḥ)

  South Levantine Arabic: قمح m (qámeḥ)

• Archi: хъохъол (qoqol)
• Armenian: ցորեն (hy) (cʻoren)
• Aromanian: gârn m
• Assamese: গম c (gom)
• Asturian: trigu m
• Azerbaijani: buğda (az)
• Bashkir: бойҙай (boyźay)
• Basque: gari
• Bats: კავ (ḳav)
• Belarusian: пшані́ца f (pšaníca)
• Bengali: গম (bn) (gom)
• Breton: gwiniz
• Bulgarian: пшени́ца (bg) f (pšeníca), жито (bg) n (žito)
• Burmese: ဂျုံ (my) (gyum)
• Buryat: улаан буудай (ulaan buudaj)
• Catalan: blat (ca) m
• Catawba: kus sarak
• Chakma: 𑄉𑄧𑄟𑄴 (gam)
• Chechen: кӏа (kʼa)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏣᎴᏍᏗ (utsalesdi)
• Chickasaw: tili'ko' nihi'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 麥／麦 (mak⁶), 小麥／小麦 (siu² mak⁶)

  Hokkien: 麥／麦 (zh-min-nan) (be̍h)

  Mandarin: 麥／麦 (zh) (mài), 小麥／小麦 (zh) (xiǎomài)

  Wu: 麥／麦 (⁸maq)

• Chuvash: тулӑ (tulă)
• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān tlaōlli
• Classical Syriac: ܚܛܬܐ f (ḥeṭṯā)
• Cornish: gwaneth
• Corsican: granu (co) m
• Czech: pšenice (cs) f
• Danish: hvede (da) c
• Dhivehi: ގޮދަން (godan̊)
• Dutch: weit (nl) f, tarwe (nl) m
• Elfdalian: waita
• Erzya: товзюро (tovźuro)
• Esperanto: tritiko (eo)
• Estonian: nisu (et)
• Extremaduran: trigu m
• Faroese: hveiti f or n
• Finnish: vehnä (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: blât m
• French: blé (fr) m
• Friulian: forment m
• Galician: trigo (gl) m
• Georgian: ხორბალი (xorbali)
• German: Weizen (de) m

  Alemannic German: Weisse m

  Pennsylvania German: Weeze m

• Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 (ƕaiteis)
• Greek: σιτάρι (el) n (sitári)

  Ancient: πῡρός m (pūrós)

• Greenlandic: qajûssiagssat
• Gujarati: ઘઉં m (ghaũ)
• Haitian Creole: ble
• Hausa: álkámà
• Hebrew: חִיטָּה (he) f (khitá)
• Hindi: गेहूँ (hi) m (gehū̃)
• Hungarian: búza (hu)
• Icelandic: hveiti (is) n
• Ido: frumento (io)
• Indonesian: gandum (id)
• Ingrian: vehnä
• Ingush: кӏа (kʼa)
• Inuktitut: ᓂᐊᖂᔮᒃᓴᖅ (niaquujaaksaq)
• Inupiaq: palauvakstrat
• Irish: cruithneacht f

  Old Irish: cruithnecht f

• Italian: frumento (it) m, grano (it) m
• Japanese: 小麦 (ja) (こむぎ, komugi)
• Javanese: ꦒꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦩ꧀ (jv) (gandum)
• Kabardian: гуэдз (kbd) (gʷɛdz)
• Kannada: ಗೋಧಿ (kn) (gōdhi)
• Kapampangan: trigu
• Kazakh: бидай (kk) (bidai)
• Khakas: пуғдай (puğday)
• Khmer: សាលី (km) (saaləy), ភោជ្ជសាលី (phoocsaaləy)
• Konkani: गंव m (gauva)
• Korean: 밀 (ko) (mil)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەنم m (genim)

  Northern Kurdish: genim (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: буудай (ky) (buuday)
• Lak: лачӏа (lačʼa)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າບະເລ (lo) (khao ba lē), ເຂົ້າສາລີ (khao sā lī)
• Latgalian: kvīši
• Latin: trīticum n
• Latvian: kvieši (lv) m pl
• Laz: დიკა (diǩa)
• Lezgi: къуьл (q̄ül)
• Limburgish: weit (li) m
• Lithuanian: kviečiai m pl
• Lombard: formét m
• Low German: Weet m
• Luxembourgish: Weess m
• Macedonian: пченица f (pčenica)
• Malagasy: varimbazaha (mg)
• Malay: gandum (ms), terigu
• Malayalam: ഗോതമ്പ് (ml) (gōtampŭ)
• Maltese: qamħ
• Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᠰᡝ (maise)
• Manx: curnaght
• Maori: witi, wīti
• Marathi: गहू (mr) m (gahū)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шыдаҥ (šydaŋ)

  Western Mari: шӓдӓнгӹ (šädängÿ)

• Mirandese: trigo m
• Mòcheno: kourn n
• Mongolian: улаан буудай (ulaan buudaj), буудай (mn) (buudaj)
• Navajo: tłʼoh naadą́ą́ʼ
• Neapolitan: grano m
• Nepali: गहुँ (ne) (gahũ)
• Newar: छ्व (chwa)
• Northern Sami: nisu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvete (no)

  Nynorsk: kveite

• Nuosu: ꅪ (hni)
• Occitan: blat (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: пьшєница f (pĭšenica)
• Old English: hwæte m
• Old Galician-Portuguese: triigo m
• Old High German: weizzi
• Old Norse: hveiti n
• Ossetian: мӕнӕу (mænæw)
• Papiamentu: trigo
• Pashto: غنم (ps) m (ǧanëm)
• Persian: گندم (fa) (gandom)
• Picard: blèi m
• Polish: pszenica (pl) f
• Portuguese: trigo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਣਕ (pa) f (kaṇak)
• Quechua: riwu
• Romagnol: grân m
• Romani: giv m
• Romanian: grâu (ro) m, grâne (ro) m pl
• Romansch: furment m
• Russian: пшени́ца (ru) f (pšeníca)
• Samogitian: kvėitē m
• Sanskrit: गोधूम (sa) m (godhūma)
• Sardinian: tricu m
• Saterland Frisian: Weete m
• Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пшѐница f

  Roman: pšènica (sh) f

• Shan: ၶဝ်ႈၵျုင်ႇ (shn) (khāo kjùng)
• Shona: gorosi
• Sicilian: furmentu m
• Slovak: pšenica (sk) f
• Slovene: pšeníca (sl) f
• Somali: qamadi m or f, sareen (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pšenica f

  Upper Sorbian: pšeńca f

• Southern Altai: буудай (buuday)
• Spanish: trigo (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒍼
• Swahili: ngano (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: vete (sv) n
• Tagalog: trigo (tl)
• Tajik: гандум (tg) (gandum)
• Talysh: qandım
• Tamil: கோதுமை (ta) (kōtumai)
• Taos: łitǫ́ne
• Tatar: бодай (tt) (boday)
• Telugu: గోధుమ (te) (gōdhuma)
• Thai: ข้าวสาลี (th) (kâao săa-lee)
• Tibetan: གྲོ (gro)
• Tocharian B: ysāre
• Turkish: buğday (tr)
• Turkmen: bugdaý (tk)
• Ukrainian: пшени́ця (uk) f (pšenýcja)
• Urdu: گیہوں m (gehū̃), گندم m (gandum)
• Uyghur: بۇغداي (bughday)
• Uzbek: bug'doy (uz)
• Veps: nižu
• Vietnamese: lúa mì (vi)
• Volapük: vuit (vo)
• Voro: nisu
• Walloon: frumint (wa) m
• Welsh: gwenith (cy) m
• West Frisian: weet c
• Wolof: bele
• Yagnobi: гандум (gandum)
• Yakut: бурдук (burduk)
• Yiddish: ווייץ m (veyts)
• Zazaki: ğele (diq) n

colour

• Czech: pšeničná f
• Finnish: vehnänkeltainen
• Galician: flavo m
• Ido: frumentea
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەنم ڕەنگ (genim reng)

• Marathi: गह्वाळ (gahvāḷ)
• Persian: گندمی (fa) (gandomi)
• Swahili: rangi ya ngano
• Telugu: గోధుమ రంగు (gōdhuma raṅgu)

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

colour

• Finnish: vehnänkeltainen
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: flavo
• German: weizenfarben
• Romanian: de culoarea grâului
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Derived terms

• bread of wheat
• bread wheat (Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum, syn. Triticum aestivum)
• buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum or Eriogonum spp.)
• club wheat (Triticum aestivum subsp. compactum, syn. Triticum compactum)
• common wheat (Triticum aestivum)
• cone wheat Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum, syn. Triticum turgidum)
• cow-wheat
• cracked wheat, cracked-wheat
• cream of wheat
• dog wheat
• durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum)
• English wheat Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum, syn. Triticum turgidum)
• German wheat
• good as wheat in the bin
• Guinea wheat
• hard red spring wheat
• hard red winter wheat
• hard wheat (See durum wheat)
• hard white wheat
• hulled wheat
• Indian dwarf wheat (Triticum aestivum subsp. compactum, syn. Triticum compactum)
• Indian wheat
• Khorasan wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum, syn. Triticum turanicum)
• macaroni wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum)
• Marquis wheat
• mummy wheat
• never eat soggy wheat
• pasta wheat
• Persian wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. carthlicum, syn. Triticum carthlicum Nevski)
• Polish wheat Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum, syn. Triticum polonicum)
• poulard wheat
• puffed wheat
• rivet wheat Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum, syn. Triticum turgidum)
• separate the wheat from the chaff
• shot wheat (Triticum aestivum subsp. compactum, syn. Triticum compactum)
• shredded wheat
• soft red winter wheat
• soft wheat
• soft white wheat
• sort the wheat from the chaff
• spelt wheat (subspecies, syn. Triticum spelta)
• spring wheat
• starch wheat
• Turkey wheat
• wheat and chessboard problem
• wheat beer
• Wheatbelt
• wheat belt, wheatbelt
• wheat bisk
• wheat bread
• wheat bug
• wheatear (Oenanthe spp.)
• wheat-eel
• wheaten
• wheaten terrier
• wheat flour
• wheat fly
• wheat germ
• wheatgrass (Triticum aestivum, Agropyron spp.)
• wheatland
• wheat leaf rust (certain species in Pucciniales)
• wheatmeal
• wheat midge
• wheat mildew
• wheat paste
• wheat penny
• Wheat Ridge
• wheat rust (See wheat leaf rust.)
• wheat sawfly
• wheat starch
• wheat thief
• wheat weevil
• wheatworm (Anguina tritici)
• whole-wheat
• winnow the wheat from the chaff
• winter wheat

 

Related terms

• white

See also

• aleurone
• bulgur
• dermatitis herpetiformis
• einkorn wheat (Triticum boeoticum (wild), Triticum monococcum (domesticated))
• emmer (Triticum turgidum)
• farina
• flour
• frumentaceous
• frumenty
• leghorn
• panipuri
• semolina
• spelt (Triticum spelta)
• tabbouleh
• udon
• zein
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Hewat, aweth, wathe