jalapeño

jalapeño

See also: jalapeno

English

immature jalapeño peppers

Alternative forms

• jalapeno (more common in the UK)

Etymology

Borrowed in the early 1930s from Mexican Spanish jalapeño.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhæl.əˈpeɪn.jəʊ/,[3][4] /ˌhæləˈpiːnəʊ/,[4] /ˌdʒæləˈpiːnəʊ/,[1][5] /ˌhæləˈpɛnjəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑ.ləˈpeɪn.joʊ/,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] /ˌhæ.ləˈpeɪn.joʊ/,[2] IPA^(key): /ˌhɑ.ləˈpin.joʊ/[4]
  • (US, less commonly) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑ.ləˈpin.oʊ/,[2] /ˌhæ.ləˈpin.oʊ/,[2] /ˌhɑ.ləˈpeɪn.oʊ/,[2] /ˌhæ.ləˈpeɪn.oʊ/,[2]
  • (US, humorous spelling pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈlæpənoʊ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌhæləˈpiːn(j)oʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (US, Northern California)

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Noun

jalapeño (plural jalapeños)

1. A cultivar of hot chili pepper, Capsicum annuum.

   Synonyms: jalapeño pepper, jalap

   Coordinate term: cayenne pepper

Translations

variety of hot chili pepper

Arabic: Hijazi Arabic: هلپينيو‎ m (halapēnyu, halapīnyu), هلبينيو‎ m (halabīnyu, halabēnyu) Chinese: Mandarin: 墨西哥辣椒 (Mòxīgē làjiāo) Classical Nahuatl: chīlchotl Danish: jalapeno Esperanto: ĥalapenjo Finnish: jalapeno, jalapeño (fi) German: Jalapeño m, Jalapeno m Japanese: ハラペーニョ (harapēnyo) Korean: 할라페뇨 (hallapenyo) Polish: jalapeño (pl) n Russian: халапе́ньо (ru) n (xalapɛ́nʹo)

References

1. “jalapeño”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. “jalapeño”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
3. “jalapeño” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. “jalapeño”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
5. “jalapeño”, in Collins English Dictionary.
6. “jalapeño” (US) / “jalapeño” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
7. “jalapeño”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• jalapeño on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish jalapeño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.laˈpɛ.ɲɔ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛɲɔ
• Syllabification: ja‧la‧pe‧ño

Noun

jalapeño n (indeclinable)

1. jalapeño

Further reading

• jalapeño in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jalapeño in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• xalapeño

Etymology

From Jalapa +‎ -eño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xalaˈpeɲo/ [xa.laˈpe.ɲo]

• Audio (Chile)

  (file)

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɲo
• Syllabification: ja‧la‧pe‧ño

Adjective

jalapeño (feminine jalapeña, masculine plural jalapeños, feminine plural jalapeñas)

1. (relational) of Xalapa, Veracruz

Noun

jalapeño m (plural jalapeños, feminine jalapeña, feminine plural jalapeñas)

1. an inhabitant or resident of Xalapa
2. jalapeño (pepper)

   Synonym: cuaresmeño

See also

• chipotle
• habanero

Further reading

• “jalapeño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014