English Explanatory Dictionary

paprika

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
  2. A variety of the spice.
  3. A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
  4. A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.
adj
  1. Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.

Pronunciation

/pəˈpɹiːkə/ /pæpˈɹiːkə/ /ˈpæpɹɪkə/ En-uk-paprika.oga

Word forms

paprika paprikas paprica more paprika most paprika

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), from Indo-Aryan; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). Akin to paprikash.

Related words

goulash pepper pimiento

Derived words

paprika paste Spanish paprika

Translations

Arabic: بَابْرِكَا Arabic: بَابْرِيكَا Arabic: بَبْرِيكَا Arabic: بابريكا Arabic: بابركا Arabic: ببركا Arabic: پپركا Arabic: تحميرة Belarusian: па́прыка Bulgarian: черве́н пипе́р Burmese: အရောင်တင်မှုန့် Chinese Cantonese: 紅椒粉 /红椒粉 Chinese Cantonese: 甜紅椒粉 /甜红椒粉 Chinese Cantonese: 甜椒粉 Chinese Mandarin: 辣椒粉 Czech: paprika Danish: paprika Dutch: paprika Esperanto: papriko Faroese: paprika Faroese: piparfrukt Finnish: paprika Finnish: paprikajauhe Finnish: kuivattu paprika Finnish: kuivattu chili French: paprika Galician: pemento Galician: paprica Georgian: წიწაკა German: Paprika Greek: πάπρικα Greek: κοκκινοπίπερο Hungarian: paprika Hungarian: pirospaprika Ido: papriko Indonesian: paprika Italian: paprika Italian: paprica Japanese: パプリカ Korean: 파프리카 Maltese: paprika Mongolian: улаан чинжүү Norwegian Bokmål: paprika Norwegian Nynorsk: paprika Persian: پاپریکا Polish: papryka Polish: suszona papryka Portuguese: páprica Portuguese: colorau Romanian: paprică Romanian: boia Russian: па́прика Serbo-Croatian: па̀прика Serbo-Croatian: pàprika Slovene: paprika Spanish: pimentón Spanish: páprika Spanish: paprika Swedish: paprika Turkish: paprika Ukrainian: па́прика Yiddish: פּאַפּריקע
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