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 (ḳunədo bärəbäre)
• Arabic: فلفل أسود m (filfil ʾáswad)
• Armenian: սեւ բիբար (sew bibar)
• Azeri: qara bibər
• Belarusian: чо́рны пе́рац m (čórny pjérac)
• Bulgarian: че́рен пи́пер m (čéren píper)
• Catalan: pebre negre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑胡椒 (zh) (hēihújiāo)

• Czech: pepř černý m
• Dutch: zwarte peper m
• Faroese: svart pipar n
• Finnish: mustapippuri (fi)
• French: poivre noir m
• Georgian: პილპილი (pilpili)
• German: schwarzer Pfeffer m
• Greek: μαυροπίπερο n (mavropípero)
• 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)
• Lao: ພິກໄທ (lo) (phik thai)
• Macedonian: црн пипер m (crn piper)
• Maltese: bżar, bżar iswed
• Manx: pibbyr doo m
• Persian: فلفل سیاه (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
• Swedish: svartpeppar (sv) c
• Telugu: మిరియము (te) (miriyamu)
• Thai: พริกไทยดำ (prík tai dam)
• Turkish: karabiber (tr)
• Ukrainian: чо́рний пе́рець m (čórnyj pérecʹ)
• Uzbek: murch (uz)

§External links

• Black pepper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Piper nigrum on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Piper nigrum
•  Piper nigrum on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Piper nigrum