Meaning

7 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A plant of the family Piperaceae.

    Pfeffer, Pfefferstrauch

    пе́рецpérec

  2. (uncountable)A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

    Pfeffer

    пе́рецpérec, чёрный пе́рецčórnyj pérec

    пе́рецьpérecʹ

  3. (Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, uncountable)A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

    Chili, Paprika, Paprikaschote

    пе́рецpérec

    sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

  4. (countable, uncountable)A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

    Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

  5. (countable, uncountable)A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)A beating; a thrashing.

  7. (Multicultural London English, countable, slang, uncountable)A shotgun.

Examples

291 sentences

  1. You put in too much pepper.

    Ти кладеш забагато перцю. — deniko

    ruТы положил слишком много перца. — odexed

    deDu hast da zu viel Pfeffer hineingetan. — Esperantostern

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. I don't eat green peppers at all.

    Я взагалі не їм зелений перець. — deniko

    ruЯ совсем не ем зелёный перец. — odexed

    deGrünen Paprika esse ich gar nicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. She hates green peppers.

    Вона ненавидить зелений перець. — deniko

    ruОна ненавидит зелёный перец. — Lenin_1917

    deSie hasst grünen Pfeffer. — MUIRIEL

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  4. Tom hates green peppers.

    Том ненавидить зелений перець. — deniko

    deTom hasst grüne Paprika. — pullnosemans

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  5. I really like green peppers.

    Мені дуже до вподоби зелений перець. — deniko

    deIch mag grüne Gemüsepaprika sehr. — AC

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
spice:
Русский
By meaning 2
plant:
spice:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
plant:
fruit of the capsicum:

Origin

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar,

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”), ultimately from Dravidian; compare Tamil திப்பலி (tippali). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Norwegian Bokmål pepper, Norwegian Nynorsk pepar, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: peppers

Synonyms

8 synonyms
capsicum
Close in meaning
  • pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground:peppercorn
  • climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam:common pepperblack pepperwhite pepperMadagascar pepperPiper nigrum
  • any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers:capsicumcapsicum pepper plant

Word family

81 related words
Relatedpeppery
Derivedalligator pepperbanana pepperbell pepperbepepperbetel pepperbird pepperblack peppercayenne peppercherry pepperchili peppercone pepperconical pepperconic pepperghost peppergreen pepperhot pepperlemon peppermalagueta peppermignonette peppermonk's pepperoverpepperpeppadewpepper-and-saltpepper ball

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

7 patterns
  • salt and pepper
  • green peppers
  • like green peppers
  • too much pepper
  • much pepper in
  • much pepper
  • more pepper

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
peopleA1people'speppeppercornpeppermintpepperoniperB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

pepper — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto