jalapeño
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Immature jalapeño peppers
See also: jalapeno
English
Alternative forms
- jalapeno (more common in the UK)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing 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]
- (Canada) IPA(key): IPA(key): ,
Audio (US): (file) Audio (Northern California): (file)
Noun
jalapeño (plural jalapeños)
- A cultivar of hot chili pepper, Capsicum annuum.
- Synonyms: jalapeño pepper, jalap
- Coordinate term: cayenne pepper
Translations
variety of hot chili pepper
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “jalapeño”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 “jalapeño”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “jalapeño”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 “jalapeño”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 “jalapeño”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “jalapeño” (US) / “jalapeño” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- ^ “jalapeño”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Mexican Spanish jalapeño.
Pronunciation
Noun
jalapeño n (indeclinable)
Further reading
- jalapeño in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish jalapeño.
Pronunciation
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Noun
jalapeño m (plural jalapeños)
- Alternative form of jalapenho
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xalaˈpeɲo/
Audio (Chile): (file) Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -eɲo
- Syllabification: ja‧la‧pe‧ño
Adjective
jalapeño (feminine jalapeña, masculine plural jalapeños, feminine plural jalapeñas)
- (relational) of Xalapa, Veracruz
Noun
jalapeño m (plural jalapeños, feminine jalapeña, feminine plural jalapeñas)
- an inhabitant or resident of Xalapa
- jalapeño (pepper)
- Synonym: cuaresmeño
Descendants
- → English: jalapeño, jalapeno (more common in the UK)
- → Esperanto: ĥalapenjo
- → Hijazi Arabic: هلپينيو (halapēnyu, halapīnyu), هلبينيو (halabīnyu, halabēnyu)
- → Japanese: ハラペーニョ (harapēnyo)
- → Korean: 할라페뇨 (hallapenyo)
- → Portuguese: jalapenho
See also
Further reading
- “jalapeño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish jalapeño.
Noun
jalapeño c
Declension
Declension of jalapeño
References
Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish jalapeño.
Pronunciation
Noun
jalapeño (definite accusative jalapeñoyu, plural jalapeñolar)