chili

See also: Chili and chīlì

English

Alternative forms

• chile (US)
• chilli (UK)

Etymology

A variant of chilli; from Nahuatl chilli, via Spanish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɪl.iː/
• Homophones: Chile, chile, chilli, chilly

Noun

chili (plural chilis or chilies)

1. The pungent/spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used especially to add heat, or as a flavouring in cooking; associated with Mexican, Indian, and Tex-Mex cuisine.

   The farmers’ market had a wide variety of chilis from anchos to jalapeños to habaneros.

2. A dish made with this fruit and other ingredients, such as beans and beef; chili con carne.

   I fancy having some chili for dinner tonight. What about you?

3. (uncountable) Powdered chili peppers, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

   I want to make this pasta spicy so I’m going to add some chili to it.

Synonyms

• (pepper): chili pepper
• (dish): chili con carne

Derived terms

• chili con carne
• chili con queso, chili cheese
• chili dog
• chili sauce
• chili pepper

Translations

spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: فلفل حار m (filfil ḥār)

  Egyptian Arabic: فلفل حراق m (felfel ḥarrāʾ)

• Armenian: չիլի (čʿili), չիլի պղպեղ (čʿili płpeł)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лют червен пипер (ljut červen piper)
• Burmese: ငရုတ် (my) (nga.rut)
• Chamicuro: chichi
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辣椒 (zh) (làjiāo), 椒 (zh) (jiāo)

• Danish: chili (da)
• Dutch: chili (nl), chilipeper
• Esperanto: kapsiketo
• Finnish: chili (fi), chilipippuri, chili-pippuri
• French: piment (fr) m
• Georgian: წიწაკა (cicaka)
• German: Chili (de) f
• Greek: τσίλι n (tsíli)
• Guaraní: ky'ỹi
• Gujarati: મરચું (maracuṁ)
• Hebrew: פלפלת צ'ילי
• Hindi: मिर्च (mirca, mirc)
• Hungarian: csili (hu), csilipaprika
• Indonesian: cabai (id)
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: チリ (ja) (chiri), 唐辛子 (ja) (とうがらし, tōgarashi)
• Khmer: ម្ទេស (km) (mteih)
• Korean: 칠리 (chilli), 고추 (ko) (gochu)
• Lao: ໝາກເຜັດ (lo) (māk phet)
• Latvian: čili
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: paprika f

• Malay: cili, lada, lombok
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: लाल मिरची (lāl mircī)
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: chīlli (nah)
• Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Oriya: ଲଙ୍କାମରିଚ
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: فلفل قرمز (fa) (felfel-e qermez)
• Portuguese: chili m, chile m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: utsu, uchu (qu)
• Russian: красный перец (ru) m (krásnyj pérec), горький перец m (górʹkij pérec), перец чили m (pérec číli)
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: chile (es) m (Mex, CentAm), ají (es) m (SouthAm), pimiento (es) m
• Swahili: pili pili
• Swedish: chili (sv), chilipeppar (sv) c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: மிளகாய் (ta) (miḷakāy)
• Taos: cìli’íne
• Telugu: ఎండు మిరపకాయ (te) (eṃḍu mirapakāya)
• Thai: พริก (th) (prík)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Tz'utujil: iik
• Urdu: مرچ (mirca, mirc)
• Vietnamese: ớt (vi), ớt cay
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

chili con carne — see chili con carne

spice

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: شطة f (šaṭa)

• Finnish: chilipulveri, chili (fi)
• Greek: τσίλι n (tsíli)
• Hungarian: csili (hu)

• Portuguese: chili m, chile m
• Swedish: chili (sv) c

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Danish

Noun

chili c (singular definite chilien, plural indefinite chilifrugter)

1. chili

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Dutch

Noun

chili c (plural chilis)

1. chili

Synonyms

• chilipeper

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Finnish

Noun

chili

1. chili

Declension

Inflection of chili (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		chili	chilit
accusative	nom.?	chili	chilit
	gen.	chilin
genitive		chilin	chilien
partitive		chiliä	chilejä
inessive		chilissä	chileissä
elative		chilistä	chileistä
illative		chiliin	chileihin
adessive		chilillä	chileillä
ablative		chililtä	chileiltä
allative		chililleˣ	chileilleˣ
essive		chilinä	chileinä
translative		chiliksi	chileiksi
instructive		—	chilein
abessive		chilittä	chileittä
comitative		—	chileineen

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Italian

Noun

chili m

1. plural form of chilo

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• chile

Noun

chili m (plural chilis)

1. chili pepper
2. (uncountable) chili (spice)

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Swedish

Noun

chili c

1. chili

Declension

Declension of chili

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	chili	chilin	chilifrukter	chilifrukterna
genitive	chilis	chilins	chilifrukters	chilifrukternas

Synonyms

• chilipeppar