rice .. what do you call rice in your language?
By pranay7
@pranay7 (1657)
India
19 responses
@danielcatastrophy22 (775)
• Philippines
18 Jan 07
well here in my country philippines we call rice as "bigas"
@Sarah1977 (495)
• United States
25 Jan 07
In the Spanish language it is also called "arroz". I am not hispanic, but my husband is from Puerto Rico, so I have learned to speak his language. Portuguese and Spanish have a lot of similarities!
@feris0604 (303)
• Malaysia
6 Apr 07
In Malaysia, uncooked rice is 'beras', cooked rice is 'nasi'.
As Chinese, using the Cantonese dialet - uncooked rice is 'mai', cooked rice is 'fan'.
Using the Chinese language itself - uncooked rice is 'mi', cooked rice is 'fan' (using another intonation).
@warlock1974 (319)
• Ft. Frances, Ontario
27 Apr 07
wild rice in my language is called "ma-noo-min" in my aboriginal canadian toungue which is ojibway.
@OrangJuice (687)
• China
29 Aug 07
We call it "mi"(uncooked);"fan"(cooked);"zhou"(congee);"xi fan"(similar with congee but rice is harder). And if before harvesting, it's called "dao".
@abollegala (92)
• Sri Lanka
17 Jan 07
Before coocked it is 'Haal' and when it is cooked it is called 'Bath' in sinhala(The official language in Sri Lanka)
