pipars

Icelandic

pipari on Latvian Wikipedia

Borrowed from Old Norse pipari, or maybe from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Swedish pipar (whence also Finnish pippuri, dialectal pipari, Estonian pipar), itself a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin piper, also a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”) (via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ira" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.), apparently also borrowed from some non-Indo-European language. In (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian, pipari is an old borrowing, already found in 15th- and 16h-century family and house names. In 17th- and 18th-century dictionaries, German-influenced variants (pipere, piperis; cf. Low German peper) were found; the form pipari appeared in the 18th century, and became dominant in the 19th century.^[1]

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pipars m (1st declension)

pepper (plants of the families Piperaceae (genus Piper and others) and Solanaceae (genus Capsicum), with spicy fruits used as condiments)
melnais pipars ir daudzgadīgs kāpelētājaugs ar tievu, lokanu stumbru, kura garums var sasniegt pat 10-12 metrus ― the black pepper is a perennial creeper (plant) with a thin, flexible stem, the length of which can reach even 10-12 meters
(only plural, the fruits of these plants, used as condiments)
smalkie pipari ― fine peppers

berzt piparus ― to scour, to grate peppers

piparu degvīns ― pepper vodka

pielikt zupai peperus ― to add pepper to the soup

notīrītas, apmazgātas, nosusinātas butes ierīvē ar sāli, pipariem, novieto pannā uz restēm ― cleaned, washed, dried plaice (fish) is rubbed with salt (and) pepper (and) then put in a pan on the grill

Declension of pipars (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pipars	pipari
accusative (akuzatīvs)	piparu	piparus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pipara	piparu
dative (datīvs)	piparam	pipariem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	piparu	pipariem
locative (lokatīvs)	piparā	piparos
vocative (vokatīvs)	pipar	pipari

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pipari”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN