paddy (plural paddies)
Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”
A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
Translations:
rice unmilled:
Afrikaans: rys veld
Albanian: orizore (sq) m
Arabic: حَقْل اَلْأَرُزّ m (ḥaql al-ʾaruzz)
Assamese: ধাননি (dhanoni)
Banjarese: pahumaan
Belarusian: рысавыя палі m (rysavyja pali)
Bengali: ধানজমি (dhānajami)
Bulgarian: оризище m (orizište)
Burmese: လယ် (my) (lai)
Catalan: arrossar (ca) m
Cebuano: humayan, kahumayan
Chinese:Cantonese: 稻田 (dou6tin3)Mandarin: 稻田 (zh) (dàotián), 水田 (zh)(shuǐtián)
Czech: rýžové pole m
Danish: rismark (da) n
Dutch: rijstveld (nl) n
Esperanto: rizejo
Estonian: riisipõld (et)
Finnish: riisipelto (fi)
French: rizière (fr) f
Galician: arrozal (gl) m
German: Reisfeld (de) m
Greek: ριζοχώραφο m (rizochórafo)
Hebrew: שדה אורז m
Hindi: धान का क्षेत्र m (dhāna kā kṣētra)
Hungarian: rizsföld (hu)
Icelandic: hrísgrjónaakur m
Indonesian: sawah (id), sawah padi
Italian: risaia (it) m
Japanese: 田 (ja) (た, ta), 水田 (ja) (すいでん, suiden), 田んぼ (tanbo)
Javanese: sawah (jv)
Khmer: ស្រែ (km) (srae)
Korean: 논 (ko) (non), 답 (ko) (dap) (畓 (ko)), 수전 (ko) (sujeon) (水田 (ko))
Lao: ນາເຂົ້າ (nā khao)
Lithuanian: lietinimas m
Macedonian: оризово поле m (orizovo pole)
Malagasy: akotry (mg)
Malay: sawah, sawah padi
Maori: māra raihi
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: rismark m
Persian: شالیزار (fa) (shalizar)
Polish: ryżowym polu m
Portuguese: arrozal (pt) m
Romanian: orezărie (ro) f
Russian: ри́совое по́ле n (rísovoje póle)
Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic: рижино поље m, пиринчано поље mRoman: rižino polje m, pirinčano polje m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: arrozal (es) m
Sundanese: sawah
Swedish: risfält n
Tagalog: palayan
Tamil: நெல் வயல் (ta) (nel vayal)
Thai: นาข้าว (nar-kharw), นา (th) (naa)
Tulu: ಬೆನ್ನಿ (benni)
Turkish: pirinç tarlası, çeltik tarlası
Vietnamese: ruộng lúa (vi)
Volapük: risataläned (vo)
Welsh: cae reis m
See also:
paddy paw
Etymology:
English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).
Adjective:
paddy (comparative more paddy, superlativemost paddy)
(obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
Digges (1585)
John Lothrop MotleyEven after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddypersons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets […]
Etymology:
Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”)
Noun:
paddy (plural paddies)
A fit of temper; a tantrumthrow a paddy etc.
2013, Mike Brown, Adventures with Czech George (page 17)I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'
(African American Vernacular, slang) A whiteperson.
(colloquial, England) A labourer's assistantor workmate.
A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
Synonyms:
See Thesaurus:tantrum
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paddy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.