| English | bajra | | | 1 | 1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. |
| English | bulrush millet | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | cattail millet | | | 1 | Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:119-123. |
| English | horse millet | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| English | Indian millet | | | 1 | Tabaeizadeh, Z. et al. 1986. Somatic hybridization in the Gramineae: Saccharum officinarum L. (sugarcane) and Pennisetum americanum (L.) K. Schum. (pearl millet). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83:5616-5619. |
| English | pearl millet | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| French | mil africain | | | 2 | Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France. |
| French | millet à chandelles | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| French | millet perle | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| German | Negerhirse | | | 2 | Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen |
| German | Perlhirse | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| India (Hindi) | bajira | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Italian | miglio perlato | | | 2 | International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. |
| Portuguese | milheto | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | mijo negro | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | mijo perla | | | 2 | Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163. |
| Swedish | pärlhirs | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Chinese | yu gu | | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |