the.com/rice paddy

means A flooded or irrigated field where rice is cultivated, the standing water controlling weeds and nourishing the crop as it grows.

from "Paddy" comes from the Malay word "padi," meaning the rice plant itself, specifically unmilled rice still in its husk. European traders and colonists in Southeast Asia picked up the term and, through a common linguistic drift, let it slide from naming the plant to naming the field it grows in. So the English phrase actually smuggles in a small redundancy — "rice paddy" literally echoes back to something like "rice rice-field," a trace of how the word crossed languages before it settled into its current, tidier meaning.