millet

/หˆmษชlษชt/

IPA: /M IH1 L AH0 T/

noun
  1. 1

    Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

noun
  1. 1

    A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/millet