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 seeds (peppercorns) of the plant Piper nigrum 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 (qundo bärbäre)
• Arabic: فلفل أسود m (filfil ʾáswad)
• Armenian: սեւ բիբար (sew bibar)
• Azeri: qara bibər
• Belarusian: чорны перац m (čórny pjérac)
• Bulgarian: черен пипер 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: פלפל שחור (he) m (pilpel shachor)
• 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 píper)
• 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 перец 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
• Telugu: మిరియము (te) (miriyamu)
• Thai: พริกไทยดำ (prík tai dam)
• Turkish: karabiber (tr)
• Ukrainian: чорний перець 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