Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable)Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).

    a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos

  2. (countable)A variety of the spice.

    Paprika

    па́прикаpáprika

    па́прикаpápryka

  3. (countable, rare)A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Goulash without red paprika is unimaginable.

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  2. Is this dish seasoned with pepper or paprika?

    deIst dieses Gericht mit Pfeffer oder mit Paprika gewürzt?

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  3. The recipe calls for a pinch of paprika.

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  4. Is this food seasoned with pepper or paprika?

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  5. I really want that bag of paprika potato chips.

    deIch will unbedingt die Tüte mit Paprikakartoffelchips da haben.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ground spice:
Русский
By meaning 1
ground spice:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ground spice:

Origin

Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavi

Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), from Indo-Aryan; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). Akin to paprikash.

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Forms

plural: paprikas
Singularpaprika
Pluralpaprikas

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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