black pepper

black pepper

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a black pepper plant (Piper nigrum), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore

Peppercorns of black pepper

Noun

black pepper (uncountable)

1. The plant Piper nigrum.
2. The dried, unripe berries (peppercorns) of the Piper nigrum plant which are commonly used as a spice and seasoning. They are either used whole, or in a ground or crushed form.

Related terms

• bell pepper
• chili pepper
• green pepper
• hot pepper
• red pepper
• sweet pepper
• white pepper

Translations

spice

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Amharic: ቁንዶ በርበሬ (ḳundo bärbäre) Arabic: فِلْفِل أَسْوَد‎ m (filfil ʾaswad) Armenian: սեւ բիբար (sew bibar), դարապղպեղ (hy) (darapłpeł) Assamese: জালুক (zaluk) Azerbaijani: qara bibər Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: чо́рны пе́рац m (čórny pjérac) Brunei Malay: lada itam Bulgarian: че́рен пи́пер m (čéren píper) Catalan: pebre negre m Chinese: Cantonese: 黑胡椒 (haak1 wu4 ziu1) Mandarin: 黑胡椒 (zh) (hēihújiāo) Czech: pepř černý (cs) m Dhivehi: އަސޭމިރުސް‎ (asēmirus) Dutch: zwarte peper m Faroese: svart pipar n Finnish: mustapippuri (fi) French: poivre noir (fr) m Galician: pementa negra f Georgian: პილპილი (ṗilṗili) German: schwarzer Pfeffer m Greek: μαυροπίπερο n (mavropípero) Gujarati: મરી (marī) Hausa: màsōrō Hebrew: פִּלְפֵּל שָׁחֹר‎ (he) m (pilpel shachór) Hindi: काली मिर्च f (kālī mirc) Hungarian: feketebors Icelandic: svartur pipar m Indonesian: lada hitam (id) Irish: piobar dubh m Italian: pepe (it) m, pepe nero m Japanese: 黒コショウ (くろこしょう, kurokoshō), 黒胡椒 (くろこしょう, kurokoshō) Kannada: ಕರಿಮೆಣಸು (kn) (karimeṇasu), ಮೆಣಸು (kn) (meṇasu) Khmer: ម្រេច (km) (mrɨc) Lao: ພິກໄທ (lo) (phik thai) Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦓᦾᧉ (phiiknoay²) Macedonian: црн пипер m (crn piper) Malay: lada hitam (ms) Maltese: bżar, bżar iswed Manx: pibbyr doo m Mongolian: хар перц (xar perc) Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ łibáhígíí, azeedíchʼííłbáhí Nupe: màsoro Persian: فلفل سیاه‎ (fa) (felfel-e siyâh) Punjabi: ਕਾਲ਼ੀ ਮਿਰਚ f (kāḷī mirac) Polish: czarny pieprz m, pieprz (pl) m Portuguese: pimenta-do-reino (pt) f, pimenta-preta f, pimenta-negra f, pimenta-redonda f Romanian: piper negru m Russian: чёрный пе́рец m (čórnyj pérec) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: црни бибер m Roman: crni biber m Sindhi: ڪارو مرچ‎ m (kāro mircu) Slovak: čierne korenie n Slovene: črni poper m Spanish: pimienta negra (es) f Swahili: pilipili manga Swedish: svartpeppar (sv) c Tagalog: pamintang itim Telugu: మిరియము (te) (miriyamu) Thai: พริกไทยดำ (prík tai dam) Turkish: karabiber (tr) Ukrainian: чо́рний пе́рець m (čórnyj pérecʹ) Uzbek: murch (uz) Vietnamese: hạt tiêu (vi), hồ tiêu (vi), tiêu ăn

Further reading

• black pepper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Piper nigrum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Piper nigrum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons