English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ]
chili pepper (plural chili peppers )
Any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum , which has a spicy/burning flavour because it contains capsaicin . ( Not all chili peppers are particularly spicy, but all true chili peppers contain some capsaicin, in contrast to e.g. the bell pepper , which is not a true chili pepper and does not. )
Derived terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
fruit
Afrikaans: rissie (af) , brandrissie
Arabic: شَطَّة f ( šaṭṭa )
Armenian: չիլի պղպեղ ( čʿili pġpeġ ) , չիլի (hy) ( čʿili )
Assamese: জলকীয়া ( zolokia ) , মৰিচ ( moris ) ( uncommon ) , ভূঁই-জালুক ( bhũi-zaluk ) ( uncommon )
Belarusian: чырво́ны пе́рац m ( čyrvóny pjérac )
Bengali: মরিচ (bn) ( moric )
Bikol Central: lada
Bulgarian: лю́та чу́шка f ( ljúta čúška )
Burmese: ငရုတ် (my) ( nga.rut )
Catalan: bitxo m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 辣椒 ( laat6 ziu1 )
Mandarin: 辣椒 (zh) ( làjiāo )
Czech: chilli paprička f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: chilipeper (nl) m
Dzongkha: ཨེ་མ ( e ma )
Esperanto: kapsiketo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Fijian: boro gaga
Finnish: chilipippuri
French: piment (fr) m
Georgian: წიწაკა ( c̣ic̣aḳa ) , წითელი წიწაკა ( c̣iteli c̣ic̣aḳa )
German: Chili (de) f , Peperoni (de) f , Peperoncino m or f ( Switzerland ) , Pfefferoni (de) f ( Austria )
Greek: πιπεριά καυτερί f ( piperiá kafterí )
Hausa: barkono (ha)
Hawaiian: nīoi
Hebrew: פִּלְפֵּל חָרִיף m ( pilpel ḥaríf )
Hindi: मिर्च (hi) f ( mirc )
Hungarian: csilipaprika (hu)
Icelandic: eldpipar m
Indonesian: cabai (id) , cabe
Italian: peperoncino (it) m
Japanese: 唐辛子 (ja) ( とうがらし, tōgarashi ) , 蕃椒 (ja) ( ばんしょう, banshō )
Kazakh: қызыл бұрыш ( qyzyl būryş )
Khmer: ម្ទេស (km) ( mteih )
Korean: 고추 (ko) ( gochu ) , 칠리 ( chilli )
Lao: ຫມາກເຜັດຂີ້ຫນູ ( māk phet khī nū ) , ໝາກເຜັດ (lo) ( māk phet )
Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦘᦲᧅ ( ṁaakphiik )
Macedonian: чили пиперка f ( čili piperka )
Malay: cabai (ms) , cili (ms) , lada (ms)
Malayalam: മുളക് (ml) ( muḷakŭ )
Mongolian: улаан чинжүү ( ulaan činžüü )
Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: chilipepper m , chili (no) m
Nynorsk: chilipepar m , chili m
Polish: papryka chili f
Portuguese: chili m , malagueta (pt)
Romanian: ardei iute m , ciușcă (ro) f
Russian: кра́сный пе́рец (ru) m ( krásnyj pérec ) , го́рький пе́рец m ( górʹkij pérec ) , пе́рец чи́ли m ( pérec číli )
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: chile (es) m
Svan: ძაფანა̈ჲ ( ʒapanäy )
Swedish: chilipeppar (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠝꠞꠤꠌ ( moris )
Tahitian: ʻōporo
Thai: พริกขี้หนู ( prík-kîi-nǔu ) , พริก (th) ( prík )
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: черво́ний пе́рець m ( červónyj pérecʹ ) , пе́рець чи́лі m ( pérecʹ čýli )
Urdu: مرچ f ( mirc )
Vietnamese: ớt (vi) (𣎷 )
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