paprika
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: paprikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paprica
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more paprika
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most paprika
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paprica
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As a condiment in food, paprika is reputed to be strongly aphrodisiac.
California is taking the lead, producing a paprika that is more standardized and more uniformly available than the European growers offer.
gloss: A variety of the spice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Using the trio of paprikas gives more flavour than you'd get using a single paprika.
gloss: A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
examples: strings of red paprikas hang outside to dry in the autumn
gloss: A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.
pos: adj
Derived words: paprika paste
Spanish paprika
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بَابْرِكَا
roman: bābrikā
lang: Arabic
word: بَابْرِيكَا
roman: bābrīkā
lang: Arabic
word: بَبْرِيكَا
roman: babrīkā
lang: Arabic
word: بابريكا
roman: babrika
lang: Arabic
word: بابركا
roman: bābrika
lang: Arabic
word: ببركا
roman: babrika
lang: Arabic
word: پپركا
roman: paprika
lang: Arabic
word: تحميرة
roman: taḥmīra
lang: Belarusian
word: па́прыка
roman: pápryka
lang: Bulgarian
word: черве́н пипе́р
roman: červén pipér
lang: Burmese
word: အရောင်တင်မှုန့်
roman: a.raungtanghmun.
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 紅椒粉 /红椒粉
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 甜紅椒粉 /甜红椒粉
roman: tim⁴ hung⁴ ziu¹ fan²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 甜椒粉
roman: tim⁴ ziu¹ fan²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辣椒粉
roman: làjiāofěn
lang: Czech
word: paprika
lang: Danish
word: paprika
lang: Dutch
word: paprika
lang: Esperanto
word: papriko
lang: Faroese
word: paprika
lang: Faroese
word: piparfrukt
lang: Finnish
word: paprika
lang: Finnish
word: paprikajauhe
lang: French
word: paprika
lang: Galician
word: pemento
lang: Galician
word: paprica
lang: Georgian
word: წიწაკა
roman: c̣ic̣aḳa
lang: German
word: Paprika
lang: Greek
word: πάπρικα
roman: páprika
lang: Greek
word: κοκκινοπίπερο
roman: kokkinopípero
lang: Hungarian
word: paprika
lang: Hungarian
word: pirospaprika
lang: Ido
word: papriko
lang: Indonesian
word: paprika
lang: Italian
word: paprika
lang: Italian
word: paprica
lang: Japanese
word: パプリカ
roman: papurika
lang: Korean
word: 파프리카
roman: papeurika
lang: Maltese
word: paprika
lang: Mongolian
word: улаан чинжүү
roman: ulaan činžüü
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: paprika
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: paprika
lang: Persian
word: پاپریکا
roman: pâprikâ
lang: Polish
word: papryka
lang: Portuguese
word: páprica
lang: Portuguese
word: colorau
lang: Romanian
word: paprică
lang: Romanian
word: boia
lang: Russian
word: па́прика
roman: páprika
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: па̀прика
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pàprika
lang: Slovene
word: paprika
lang: Spanish
word: pimentón
lang: Spanish
word: páprika
lang: Spanish
word: paprika
lang: Swedish
word: paprika
lang: Thai
word: ปาปริกา
roman: paprika
lang: Turkish
word: paprika
lang: Ukrainian
word: па́прика
roman: pápryka
lang: Yiddish
word: פּאַפּריקע
roman: paprike
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattu paprika
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattu chili
lang: Polish
word: suszona papryka