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English
Etymology
From the bell-like shape.
Pronunciation
Noun
bell pepper (countable and uncountable , plural bell peppers )
( Canada , US , Philippines ) Capsicum annuum , an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy ) fruit, originating in the New World .
Synonyms: sweet pepper ( UK ) , capsicum ( Australia )
Translations
spicy-sweet fruit
Afrikaans: soetrissie (af)
Arabic: فِلْفِل حُلْو ( filfil ḥulw ) , فِلْفِل رُومِيّ m ( filfil rūmiyy )
Egyptian Arabic: فلفل رومي m ( felfel rumi )
Moroccan Arabic: فلفلة f ( falfla )
Armenian: տաքդեղ (hy) ( takʻdeġ ) , բիբար (hy) ( bibar )
Bulgarian: чу́шка (bg) f ( čúška )
Catalan: pebrot (ca) m
Chinese: 甜椒 (zh) ( tiánjiāo ) , 燈籠椒 / 灯笼椒 (zh) ( dēnglongjiāo )
Mandarin: 菜椒 (zh) ( càijiāo )
Classical Nahuatl: chīlli
Danish: peberfrugt c , peber c , paprika (da) ?
Dutch: paprika (nl) f , ( some fruit only ) Spaanse peper (nl) ?
Esperanto: kapsiko , kapsikofrukto
Faroese: piparfrukt f
Finnish: paprika (fi)
French: poivron (fr) m
Galician: pemento (gl) m
Georgian: ბულგარული ( bulgaruli ) , ბულგარული წიწაკა ( bulgaruli c̣ic̣aḳa ) , წიწაკა ( c̣ic̣aḳa )
German: Paprika (de) f or m , Gemüsepaprika f or m , Paprikaschote (de) f
Greek: πιπεριά (el) f ( piperiá )
Greenlandic: qasilitsoq
Hawaiian: nīoi pūhaʻuhaʻu
Hebrew: גַּמְבָּה (he) f ( gámba )
Hungarian: kaliforniai paprika (hu) , bell paprika
Hunsrik: Pimentong m
Icelandic: paprika (is) f
Indonesian: paprika (id)
Italian: peperone (it) m
Japanese: ピーマン (ja) ( pīman ) , パプリカ (ja) ( papurika )
Korean: 피망 (ko) ( pimang ) , 사자고추 (ko) ( sajagochu ) ( North Korea )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: capsicum n
Latvian: paprika f , saldais pipars m
Lithuanian: paprika f
Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦵᦃᧁ ( phiikẋew )
Macedonian: бабура f ( babura )
Malay: lada benggala , lada besar , lada congcang , cabai selasih , cabai seberang , cabai acung
Malayalam: കാപ്സിക്കം ( kāpsikkaṁ ) , മുളക് (ml) ( muḷakŭ )
Maltese: bżar m
Maori: kīkini , rapikama
Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ , azeedíchʼííʼ dootłʼizh danímazígíí
Norwegian: paprika m
Persian: فلفل دلمهای (fa) ( felfel dolme-i )
Polish: papryka (pl) f
Portuguese: pimentão (pt) m , pimento (pt) m
Romanian: ardei (ro) m , ardei gras m , gogoșar (ro) m
Romansch: paivrun m
Russian: сла́дкий пе́рец m ( sládkij pérec ) , болга́рский пе́рец m ( bolgárskij pérec ) , стручко́вый пе́рец m ( stručkóvyj pérec ) , пе́рец (ru) m ( pérec ) , па́прика (ru) f ( páprika ) , ка́псикум m ( kápsikum ) ( special )
Serbo-Croatian: paprika (sh) f
Slovene: paprika (sl) f
Spanish: pimiento (es) m , chile dulce m ( Costa Rica ) , chile morrón m ( El Salvador, Honduras ) , chile pimiento m ( Guatemala ) , chiltoma f ( Nicaragua ) , locote m ( Paraguay ) , morrón (es) m ( Argentina, Uruguay ) , pimentón (es) m ( Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela ) , pimiento morrón m ( Mexico )
Swedish: paprika (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: సిమ్లా మిర్చి ( simlā mirci ) , బెంగళూరు మిరపకాయ ( beṅgaḷūru mirapakāya )
Thai: พริกหวาน , พริกหยวก ( prík-yùuak )
Turkish: dolma biber (tr) , dolmalık biber (tr) , biber (tr)
Ukrainian: соло́дкий пе́рець m ( solódkyj pérecʹ )
Vietnamese: ớt ngọt , ớt chuông (vi)
Walloon: poevron (wa) m
Wolof: kaani-salaat
Xhosa: itshilisi , ikhanakhana
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