chili

See also: Chili and chīlì

English

Alternative forms

chile, chilli, chilly
chile (US)
chilli (Britain)
chilly (Commonwealth)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
Audio (RP) (file)
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪliː/
Rhymes: -ɪli
Homophones: Chile, chile, chilli, chilly

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Noun

chili (countable and uncountable, plural chilis or chilies)

(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
Synonym: chili pepper
- 1874, Finlay Dun, “Peppers”, in Veterinary Medicines: Their Actions and Uses, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, OCLC 909784410, pages 442–443:
  Capsicum—the dried ripe fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum—is also known as Chilly pepper, Chillies, Guinea, or pod pepper, and is chiefly brought from Zanzibar. The several varieties differ in shape and size, are of a red colour, and filled with numerous red-brown, pungent seeds.
- 2014, Jennifer Olvera, “Suburban Stunners, Stalwarts & Surprises”, in Amy Lyons, editor, Food Lovers’ Guide to Chicago: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings (Food Lovers’ Series), 2nd edition, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 187:
  Kama Indian Bistro, […] Everything is made from scratch, including the spice blends and sauces; the ingredients are quality; and the heat is no-holds-barred. Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.
(uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
Synonym: chili powder
(Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.

Derived terms

bird's eye chili
chili crab
chili dip
chili non carne
chili oil
chili parlor
chili pepper
chili powder
chili queen
chili sauce
chili sin carne
chili size
ghost chili
malagueta chili
Texas chili

Related terms

chili con carne
chili con queso

Translations

spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: فِلْفِل حَار‎ m (filfil ḥār)
Egyptian Arabic: فلفل حراق‎ m (felfel ḥarrāʾ)
Armenian: չիլի (hy) (čʿili), չիլի պղպեղ (čʿili płpeł)
Assamese: জলকীয়া (zolokia), মৰিচ (moris) (uncommon), ভূঁই-জালুক (bhũi-zaluk) (uncommon)
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: лют червен пипер (ljut červen piper)
Burmese: ငရုတ် (my) (nga.rut)
Chamicuro: chichi
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 辣椒 (laat⁶ ziu¹), 椒 (ziu¹)
Mandarin: 辣椒 (zh) (làjiāo), 椒 (zh) (jiāo)
Min Dong: 番椒 (huăng-ciĕu), 辣椒 (lăk-ciĕu)
Danish: chili (da)
Dutch: chili (nl), chilipeper (nl)
Dzongkha: ཨེ་མ (e ma)
Esperanto: kapsiketo
Fijian: boro gaga
Finnish: chili (fi), chilipippuri, chili-pippuri
French: piment (fr) m
Galician: chile (gl) m
Georgian: წიწაკა (c̣ic̣aḳa)
German: Chili (de) f
Greek: τσίλι (el) n (tsíli)
Guaraní: ky'ỹi
Gujarati: મરચું (marcũ)
Hawaiian: nīoi
Hebrew: פלפלת צ'ילי‎
Hindi: मिर्च (hi) (mirc), हरी मिर्च (harī mirc)
Hungarian: csili (hu), csilipaprika
Indonesian: cabai (id), lombok (id)
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: peperoncino (it) m
Japanese: チリ (ja) (chiri), 唐辛子 (ja) (とうがらし, tōgarashi)
Javanese: lombok (jv), ꦭꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (lombok)
Kannada: ಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ (kn) (meṇasinakāyi)
Kaqchikel: ik
Khmer: ម្ទេស (km) (mteih)
Korean: 칠리 (chilli), 고추 (ko) (gochu)
Lao: ໝາກເຜັດ (lo) (māk phet)
Latvian: čili
Laz: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: paprika f
Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦘᦲᧅ (ṁaakphiik)
Malay: cili (ms), lada (ms), lombok
Malayalam: മുളക് (ml) (muḷakŭ)
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Manchu: ᡴᠠᡴᡳᡵᡳ (kakiri)
Maori: hirikakā
Marathi: लाल मिरची (lāl mircī)
Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: улаан чинжүү (ulaan činžüü)
Classical Nahuatl: chilli
Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: chili (no) m
Nynorsk: chili m
Oriya: ଲଙ୍କାମରିଚ (lôṅkamôricô)
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Panamint: tsita
Persian: فلفل قرمز‎ (fa) (felfel-e qermez)
Polish: chili (pl) n
Portuguese: chili m, chile m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Quechua: utsu, uchu (qu)
Russian: кра́сный пе́рец (ru) m (krásnyj pérec), го́рький пе́рец m (górʹkij pérec), пе́рец чи́ли m (pérec číli), чи́ли (ru) n (číli)
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Southern Thai: ดีปรี
Spanish: chile (es) m (Mexico, Central America, Philippines), ají (es) m (South America), pimiento (es) m
Swahili: pili pili
Swedish: chili (sv), chilipeppar (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠝꠞꠤꠌ (moris)
Tagalog: sile
Tamil: மிளகாய் (ta) (miḷakāy)
Taos: cìli’íne
Telugu: ఎండు మిరపకాయ (te) (eṇḍu mirapakāya)
Thai: พริก (th) (prík)
Tibetan: བསིལ་སྨན (bsil sman), དམར་ཚ (dmar tsha)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
Tz'utujil: iik
Urdu: مرچ‎ (mirca, mirc)
Uyghur: لازا‎ (ug) (laza)
Vietnamese: ớt (vi)
White Hmong: kua txob
Yucatec Maya: yeh u'yaal a'kab yich che'
Zhuang: lwgmanh

spice

Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: شطة‎ f (šaṭṭa)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 辣椒 (laat⁶ ziu¹), 辣椒粉 (laat⁶ ziu¹ fan²) (powder)
Mandarin: 辣椒 (zh) (làjiāo), 辣椒粉 (làjiāofěn) (powder)
Finnish: chilipulveri, chili (fi)
Galician: chile (gl) m
Greek: τσίλι (el) n (tsíli)
Hungarian: csili (hu)
Malayalam: മുളക് (ml) (muḷakŭ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: chili (no) m
Nynorsk: chili m
Polish: chili (pl) n
Portuguese: chili m, chile m
Spanish: ají molido m, pimienta roja f, ají en polvo m
Swedish: chili (sv) c
Vietnamese: ớt (vi)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of chili con carne, from Spanish chile con carne (literally “chili with meat”).

Noun

chili (uncountable)

(chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
Synonym: chili con carne
(Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.

Derived terms

chili burger
chili cheese
chili dog
chili powder
Cincinnati chili

Translations

dish — see chili con carne

Anagrams

Ilchi, lichi

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

chili

chile.

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

(Amecameca, Cholula and Milpa Alta): chilli

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Noun

chili

chili pepper.

Danish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -i

Noun

chili c (singular definite chilien, plural indefinite chilifrugter)

chili

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈ(t)ʃi.li/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: chi‧li
Rhymes: -ili

Noun

chili m (plural chilis)

chili

Synonyms

chilipeper

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chili, from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʃili/, [ˈt̪ʃili]
IPA^(key): /ˈtsili/, [ˈts̠ili]
Rhymes: -ili
Syllabification^(key): chi‧li

Noun

chili

chili
Synonyms: chilipippuri, (archaic) turkinpippuri

Usage notes

Chili is seldom used to describe the sauce outside of the fixed name chili con carne. It may instead be called chilikastike or salsa.

Declension

Inflection of chili (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		chili	chilit
genitive		chilin	chilien
partitive		chiliä	chilejä
illative		chiliin	chileihin
		singular	plural
nominative		chili	chilit
accusative	nom.	chili	chilit
accusative	gen.	chilin	chilit
genitive		chilin	chilien
partitive		chiliä	chilejä
inessive		chilissä	chileissä
elative		chilistä	chileistä
illative		chiliin	chileihin
adessive		chilillä	chileillä
ablative		chililtä	chileiltä
allative		chilille	chileille
essive		chilinä	chileinä
translative		chiliksi	chileiksi
instructive		—	chilein
abessive		chilittä	chileittä
comitative		—	chileineen

Possessive forms of chili (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	chilini	chilimme
2nd person	chilisi	chilinne
3rd person	chilinsä

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chili.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃi.li/, /tʃi.li/

Noun

chili m

chili, chili con carne

Italian

Noun

chili m

plural of chilo

Anagrams

lichi

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

chili m

chili

References

“chili” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“chili” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

chili m

chili

References

“chili” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

chili

chili pepper

Polish

Alternative forms

chilli

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʂi.li/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ili
Syllabification: chi‧li

Noun

chili n (indeclinable)

chili (spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum)
chili (spice)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

chile

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.li/

Noun

chili m (plural chilis)

chili pepper (piquant fruit of Capsicum plants, especially the varieties used in Mexican cuisine)
(uncountable) chili (spice made from chili peppers)
(uncountable) chili; chili con carne (dish of meat, beans, tomato sauce and chili)

Romanian

Verb

a chili (third-person singular present chilește, past participle chilit) 4th conj.

Obsolete form of pili.

Conjugation

conjugation of chili (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)

number		singular			plural
infinitive			a chili
gerund			chilind
past participle			chilit
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	chilesc	chilești	chilește	chilim	chiliți	chilesc
	imperfect	chileam	chileai	chilea	chileam	chileați	chileau
	simple perfect	chilii	chiliși	chili	chilirăm	chilirăți	chiliră
	pluperfect	chilisem	chiliseși	chilise	chiliserăm	chiliserăți	chiliseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
subjunctive	present	să chilesc	să chilești	să chilească	să chilim	să chiliți	să chilească
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		chilește			chiliți
	negative		nu chili			nu chiliți

References

chili in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃili/ [ˈt͡ʃi.li]
Rhymes: -ili
Syllabification: chi‧li

Noun

chili m (plural chilis)

chili, chili con carne (dish)
Synonym: chili con carne

Derived terms

carne con chili
chili con carne

Swedish

Noun

chili c

chili

Declension

Declension of chili
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	chili	chilin	chilifrukter	chilifrukterna
Genitive	chilis	chilins	chilifrukters	chilifrukternas

Synonyms

chilipeppar
chilifrukt

Derived terms

chilisås (“chili sauce”)

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

chili

chili pepper.

chili

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Declension

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Italian

Noun

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

References

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Romanian

Verb

Conjugation

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun