Meaning

noun grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

noun annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

noun English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

originFrom 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…

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