bell pepper

English

Etymology

From the bell-like shape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɛl ˈpɛpɚ/, [ˌbɛɫ ˈpʰɛpɚ]

  • Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: bell‧pep‧per

Noun

bell pepper (countable and uncountable, plural bell peppers)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) Any of several bell-shaped varieties of Capsicum annuum, an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy) fruit, originating in the New World.

   Hypernyms: pepper, capsicum

   Coordinate terms: (hot/spicy) chili, chili pepper, hot pepper

   Near-synonyms: (UK) sweet pepper, (Australia, India) capsicum

Translations

spicy-sweet fruit

• Afrikaans: soetrissie (af)
• Arabic: فِلْفِل حُلْو m (filfil ḥulw), فِلْفِل رُومِيّ m (filfil rūmiyy), فُلَيْفِلَة f (fulayfila)

  Egyptian Arabic: فلفل رومي m (felfel rumi)

  Moroccan Arabic: فلفلة f (falfla)

  South Levantine Arabic: چمبا f (gamba), فلفل چمبا m (filfil gamba)

• Armenian: տաքդեղ (hy) (takʻdeġ), բիբար (hy) (bibar)
• Belarusian: сало́дкі пе́рац m (salódki pjérac)
• Bulgarian: чу́шка (bg) f (čúška)
• Catalan: pebrot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菜椒 (zh) (càijiāo), 甜椒 (zh) (tiánjiāo), 燈籠椒 / 灯笼椒 (zh) (dēnglongjiāo)

• Czech: paprika (cs) f
• Danish: peberfrugt c, peber c, paprika (da) c
• Dutch: paprika (nl) f, (some fruit only) Spaanse peper (nl) ?
• Esperanto: kapsiko, kapsikofrukto
• Faroese: piparfrukt f
• Finnish: paprika (fi)
• French: poivron (fr) m
• Galician: pemento (gl) m
• Georgian: ბულგარული (bulgaruli), ბულგარული წიწაკა (bulgaruli c̣ic̣aḳa), წიწაკა (c̣ic̣aḳa)
• German: Paprika (de) f or m, Gemüsepaprika f or m, Paprikaschote (de) f
• Greek: πιπεριά (el) f (piperiá)
• Greenlandic: qasilitsoq
• Hawaiian: nīoi pūhaʻuhaʻu
• Hebrew: גַּמְבָּה (he) f (gámba)
• Hungarian: kaliforniai paprika (hu), bell paprika
• Hunsrik: Pimentong m
• Icelandic: paprika (is) f
• Indonesian: paprika (id)
• Italian: peperone (it) m
• Japanese: ピーマン (ja) (pīman), パプリカ (ja) (papurika)
• Khmer: ម្ទេសប្លោក (mteih plaok)
• Korean: 피망 (ko) (pimang), 사자고추 (ko) (sajagochu) (North Korea)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: capsicum n
• Latvian: paprika f, saldais pipars m
• Lithuanian: paprika f
• Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦵᦃᧁ (phiikẋew)
• Macedonian: бабура f (babura)
• Malay: lada benggala, lada besar, lada congcang, cabai selasih, cabai seberang, cabai acung
• Malayalam: കാപ്സിക്കം (kāpsikkaṁ), മുളക് (ml) (muḷakŭ)
• Maltese: bżar m
• Māori: kīkini, rapikama
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: chīlli

• Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ, azeedíchʼííʼ dootłʼizh danímazígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paprika m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: فِلْفِل‌دُلْمِه‌ای (felfel-dolme-i), پاپْریکا (pâprikâ)

• Polish: papryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pimentão (pt) m, pimento (pt) m
• Romanian: ardei (ro) m, ardei gras m, gogoșar (ro) m
• Romansh: paivrun m
• Russian: сла́дкий пе́рец m (sládkij pérec), болга́рский пе́рец m (bolgárskij pérec), стручко́вый пе́рец m (stručkóvyj pérec), пе́рец (ru) m (pérec), па́прика (ru) f (páprika), ка́псикум m (kápsikum) (special)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̀прика f

  Latin: pàprika (sh) f

• Slovak: paprika f
• Slovene: paprika (sl) f
• Spanish: pimiento (es) m, chile dulce m (Costa Rica), chile morrón m (El Salvador, Honduras), chile pimiento m (Guatemala), chiltoma f (Nicaragua), locote m (Paraguay), morrón (es) m (Argentina, Uruguay), pimentón (es) m (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela), pimiento morrón m (Mexico), ají dulce m (Dominican Republic)
• Swedish: paprika (sv) c
• Tamil: குடைமிளகாய் (ta) (kuṭaimiḷakāy), கேப்சிகம் (kēpcikam)
• Telugu: సిమ్లా మిర్చి (simlā mirci), బెంగళూరు మిరపకాయ (beṅgaḷūru mirapakāya)
• Thai: พริกหวาน, พริกหยวก (th) (prík-yùuak)
• Turkish: dolma biber (tr), dolmalık biber (tr), biber (tr)
• Ukrainian: соло́дкий пе́рець m (solódkyj pérecʹ)
• Vietnamese: ớt ngọt (vi), ớt chuông (vi)
• Walloon: poevron (wa) m
• Winnebago: sgiixete
• Wolof: kaani-salaat
• Xhosa: itshilisi, ikhanakhana

References

• bell pepper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Capsicum annuum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Capsicum annuum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons