piper

Concepts

pepper

Synonyms

piper-

Translations

Pfeffer

peper

poivre

pebre

pepe

pimienta

pimenta

فلفل

πιπέρι

biber

pimenta-do-reino

pebre

biber serpmek

فِلْفِل

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpɪ.pɛr]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”), itself of unknown origin (perhaps a Dravidian or other substrate language of the Indian subcontinent). The declension was changed to a rhotic-stem.