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A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures ...
Paddy is a diminutive form of the male given names Patrick, Patricia, Padraig, Padraic and variant forms. It is also a nickname. Notable people include:
Pádraig is also sometimes anglicised as Paddy or Podge; the former anglicisation is often used, sometimes pejoratively, as a term for Irish people as a whole. The Scottish Gaelic forms are Pàdraig ( Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːt̪ɾɪkʲ] ) or Pàra ( Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːɾə] ) for short (cf. Para Handy ).
Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname; A nickname or slur for an Irish person; Birds. Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon;
Puddling is the tillage of rice paddies while flooded, an ancient practice that is used to prepare for rice cultivation. Historically, this has been accomplished by dragging a weighted harrow across a flooded paddy field behind a buffalo or ox, and is now accomplished using mechanized approaches, often using a two-wheel tractor.
A group of children playing in a rice mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. Rice mill in Beaumont, Texas. A rice mill is a food-processing facility where paddy (unmilled rice) is processed by cleaning the grain, removing the hull, sorting, and packing the rice, leaving it in its final form for sale to consumers.
Dhenki, Dhiki, Dhinki (Nepali: ढिकी; pronounced), dheki or dhenki (Bangla: ঢেঁকি, Assamese: ঢেঁকী, Hindi: ढेंकि) is an old style rice mill or husk lever [1] found in Nepal, Bangladesh and Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Odisha. [2] [3] It is usually made of hard wood. It has a fulcrum supporting a ...
Dāl bhāt (Bhojpuri:𑂠𑂰𑂪 𑂦𑂰𑂞, Nepali: दाल भात, Hindi: दाल भात, Bengali: ডাল ভাত, Gujarati: દાળ ભાત, Marathi: डाळ भात, Assamese: দাইল ভাত dāil bhat / দালি ভাত dāli bhāt, is a traditional meal from the Indian subcontinent.