Glossary of cereals-grains in English and Hindi is listed here. The first column consists of cereals names in English, whilst the second column consists of cereals names in Hindi.The names of the cereals-grains are listed in an alphabetical order.
- Cereals – Anaj
- Barley – Jav, Jau
- Broken Wheat – Dalia (used in making savory and sweet dishes)
- Maize – Makki, Makka, Makai
- Maize Flour – Makai ka atta (used in indian flat breads, popularly known as makki di roti in punjab)
- Pearl Millet – Bajra (used in making flat breads and is very healthy)
- Puffed Rice – Murmura, Kurmura (used in making savory mixtures called as chiwda or making poha.)
- Rice – Chawal (a staple diet of major part of india)
- Ragi – Ragi (used in making ragi dosa, puddings and dumplings)
- Rice Flakes, Beaten Rice – Poha, Chiwra
- Sago – Sabudana (used in making savory and sweet dishes. Sabudana khichdi is famous during fasting. also used as Sabudana Vada )
- Semolina – Sooji, Rawa, Rava (used for making savory dishes like upma, kheer and halwa)
- Sorghum – Juar, Jowar
- Refined Wheat Flour – Maida (usually used in making indian bread like naan, bhatura and indian bread rolls called pav and indian sweets called gulab jamun)
- Vermicilli – Sevaiyan, Seviyan (used in making sweets and savory dishes)
- Whole Wheat Grains – Gehun
- Whole Wheat Flour – Gehun ka Atta (used in making flat breads)
- Tapioca Pearls – Sabudana
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Can you tell me whats the “RYE”?
rye is a cereal grain like wheat or jowar or bajra. rye flour is used to make rye breads. not used in india. i have never heard any recipe calling for rye flour in india. please don’t confuse it with rai or mustard seeds that is used in indian cuisine.
can you suggest some dishes made from jau atta.
hi surjeet, jau atta or barley flour can be used to make rotis. you can even mix atta, besan and jau atta and make missi rotis. theplas can be made with jowar, bajra and jau atta. its also used to make sattu – a flour made from roasted kala chana and other cereals. sattu is very popular in bihar. in fact the organic multi grain flour which i use, has jau in it. you can also add some of it to pancakes or dosa or idli.
Please let me know the English name of Chari ( a small grain in white color ) mostly used by Tamilians.
hi arun. i don’t know what is the english name of chari.
sabudana
pls let me know in english, what we call jawar ka atta.
sorghum flour
Its useful information…. thanks…
Hi Dassana ! actually i was trying to find out the proportion of different grains used in making MULTI GRAIN FLOUR. Secondly,is the proportion and grains used in making multigrain flour different for DIFFERENT TYPES OF BLOOD GROUPS. Thirdly, which grains/cereals are used for making flour for REDUCING WEIGHT & in what PROPORTION? Can you help me in solving these problems of mine? Hope to receive your reply very soon. Thanks.
hi rewa. i do not know the proportion of grains used for making multi grain flour. i would just go by andaz and make the flour. i also don’t know anything about the blood groups and its correlation with the grains. neither i can help you in grains for reducing weight and their proportion. i think these questions require an expert advice from a nutritionist or a physician. they will be able to guide you better.
thankyou
Please update the names of grains (english-tamil) also and if images are there it would be useful.
thanks for your suggestion subha. i will try to accomplish this mission with images as well as tamil names.
Thanks for information, I ended up searching for the name of Jau in english. I thought Oats was the english name for jau. Is Barley & Oats some what similar or same. Are Oats grown in india also.
Barley and Oats are different cereals. Oats are grown in India, especially in the North but are mainly fed to the cattle. Not all info one finds on search results are correct. Even I have read oats called as jau on some sites.
Can I know hindi of Oat and picture of that also?
oats are called as jaee/jai/जई in hindi. on google search you can see the pics of oats.
please specify grains names separately.n add as much as possible
thanks for the constructive feedback. when i get time, i will update this post.
i want to see the pictures of jav and javas . also what is called in english for that.
what is the difference between jav and javas?
I know for sure that Jau/Jav is the Hindi name for barley. I have seen barley grains in mumbai in the grocery stores.
I do not know what javas is.
I do not currently have any pictures of barley. You can see the pictures of barley on the following links:
http://www.antsaint.com/.a/6a00d8341bfca653ef0133ed83b425970b-pi
http://www.organicindia.com/PR_OF_barley.php
I hope this info helps you.
Javas is flaxseed.
thanks
what we call beaten rice in hindi
Beaten rice is called “poha” in Hindi. It is also known as flattened rice.