小米 Foxtail millet

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Foxtail millet (Chinese: 小米; botanic name Setaria italica, synonym Panicum italicum L.) is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most important in East Asia. It has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in India since antiquity. According to recent research, it was first domesticated in China around 6,000 BC. Other names for the species include dwarf setaria,^[2] foxtail bristle-grass,^[3] giant setaria,^[2] green foxtail,^[2] Italian millet,^[2] German millet,^[2] and Hungarian millet.^[2]

Names for foxtail millet in other languages spoken in the countries where it is cultivated include:

• Bengali: "কাওন দানা" (kaon dana)
• Kannada: ನವಣೆ (navane) or ನವಣಕ್ಕಿ (navanakki)
• Telugu: కొర్రలు (korralu) or korra^[4]
• Hindi कांगणी (Kangni)
• Punjabi ਕਂਗਣੀ/کنگنی (Kangni)*Gujarati: kang
• Japanese: awa (粟)
• German: Hirse
• Korean: jo (조). The grain obtained from it is called jopsal (좁쌀), a word that is commonly used in Korean as a metaphor for pettiness or innumerable small things (such as bumps of a skin rash).
• Malay: jewawut.
• Malayalam: thina
• Mandarin Chinese: xiǎomǐ (小米). It is the term commonly used for the grain after it has been husked (husks have been removed); unhusked grain is called guzi (谷子) in North China. Also called su (粟).^[5]
• Marathi: kang or rala
• Sinhala: thana haal
• Tamil: thinai, kavalai, or kambankorai; nuvanam (millet flour). The gruel made from millet, the staple of Ancient Tamils, is called kali, moddak kali, kuul, or sangati.
• Nepali: "Kaguno"