black pepper

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a black pepper plant (Piper nigrum), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore

Peppercorns of black pepper

Noun

black pepper (uncountable)

1. The plant Piper nigrum.
2. The dried, unripe berries (peppercorns) of the Piper nigrum plant which are commonly used as a spice and seasoning. They are either used whole, or in a ground or crushed form.

Related terms

• bell pepper
• chili pepper
• green pepper
• hot pepper
• red pepper
• sweet pepper
• white pepper

Translations

spice

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Amharic: ቁንዶ በርበሬ (ḳundo bärbäre)
• Arabic: فِلْفِل أَسْوَد‎ m (filfil ʾaswad)
• Armenian: սեւ բիբար (sew bibar), դարապղպեղ (hy) (darapłpeł)
• Assamese: জালুক (zaluk)
• Azerbaijani: qara bibər
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: чо́рны пе́рац m (čórny pjérac)
• Bulgarian: че́рен пи́пер m (čéren píper)
• Catalan: pebre negre m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黑胡椒 (haak¹ wu⁴ ziu¹)

  Mandarin: 黑胡椒 (zh) (hēihújiāo)

• Czech: pepř černý m
• Dhivehi: އަސޭމިރުސް‎ (asēmirus)
• Dutch: zwarte peper m
• Faroese: svart pipar n
• Finnish: mustapippuri (fi)
• French: poivre noir (fr) m
• Georgian: პილპილი (ṗilṗili)
• German: schwarzer Pfeffer m
• Greek: μαυροπίπερο n (mavropípero)
• Gujarati: મરી (marī)
• Hebrew: פִּלְפֵּל שָׁחֹר‎ (he) m (pilpel shachór)
• Hungarian: feketebors
• Icelandic: svartur pipar m
• Indonesian: lada hitam (id)
• Irish: piobar dubh m
• Italian: pepe (it) m, pepe nero m

• Japanese: 黒コショウ (くろこしょう, kurokoshō), 黒胡椒 (くろこしょう, kurokoshō)
• Khmer: ម្រេច (km) (mrɨc)
• Lao: ພິກໄທ (lo) (phik thai)
• Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦓᦾᧉ (phiiknoay²)
• Macedonian: црн пипер m (crn piper)
• Maltese: bżar, bżar iswed
• Manx: pibbyr doo m
• Mongolian: хар перц (har perts)
• Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ łibáhígíí, azeedíchʼííłbáhí
• Persian: فلفل سیاه‎ (fa) (felfel-e siyâh)
• Polish: czarny pieprz m
• Portuguese: pimenta-do-reino f, pimenta-preta f, pimenta-negra f, pimenta-redonda f
• Romanian: piper negru m
• Russian: чёрный пе́рец m (čórnyj pérec)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црни бибер m

  Roman: crni biber m

• Slovak: čierne korenie n
• Slovene: črni poper m
• Spanish: pimienta negra (es) f
• Swahili: pilipili manga
• Swedish: svartpeppar (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamintang itim
• Telugu: మిరియము (te) (miriyamu)
• Thai: พริกไทยดำ (prík tai dam)
• Turkish: karabiber (tr)
• Ukrainian: чо́рний пе́рець m (čórnyj pérecʹ)
• Uzbek: murch (uz)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• black pepper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Piper nigrum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Piper nigrum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons