Capsicum frutescens
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Etymology
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Borrowed from New Latin capsicum , from Ancient Greek καψικός ( kapsikós , “ like a box ” ) , from Latin capsa ( “ box ” ) .
Pronunciation
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capsicum (plural capsicums or capsica )
Any of several tropical American plants , of the genus Capsicum , principally the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens , that are cultivated as edible peppers .
Hyponyms: cayenne pepper , paprika
( Australia , New Zealand , India , Singapore ) The non-spicy fruit of the above plants, the bell pepper , contrasting with spicy varieties known as chilli .
2004 , Harold McGee , chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen , Scribner, →ISBN :Celery is often combined with carrots and onions in gently fried aromatic base preparations for other dishes (French mirepoix , Italian soffritto , Spanish sofregit ; in the Louisiana Cajun “trinity” of aromatics the carrots are replaced by green capsicums ).
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Translations
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plant of the genus Capsicum (only terms covering capsicum in general apply, NOT species-specific)
Arabic: نَبَات فُلْفُل m ( nabāt fulful )
Armenian: տաքդեղ (hy) ( takʻdeġ )
Belarusian: пе́рац m ( pjérac ) , па́прыка ( pápryka ) , струко́вы пе́рац m ( strukóvy pjérac )
Bulgarian: чу́шка (bg) f ( čúška ) , пи́пер (bg) m ( píper )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 菜椒 (zh) ( càijiāo ) , 燈籠椒 / 灯笼椒 (zh) ( dēnglongjiāo ) , 柿子椒 (zh) ( shìzijiāo ) , 甜椒 (zh) ( tiánjiāo )
Czech: paprika (cs) f
Danish: paprika (da) c
Dutch: capsicum n
Esperanto: kapsiko
Estonian: paprika (et) , punapipar
Finnish: paprika (fi)
French: piment doux (fr) m , piment (fr) m
German: Capsicum n , Paprika (de) m
Greek: πιπεριά (el) f ( piperiá )
Hebrew: פִּלְפֶּלֶת (he) f
Hindi: शिमला मिर्च m ( śimlā mirc ) , पहाड़ीमिर्च m ( pahāṛīmirc )
Hungarian: paprika (hu)
Indonesian: capsicum
Japanese: ピーマン (ja) ( pīman ) , 唐辛子 (ja) ( とうがらし, tōgarashi ) , 蕃椒 (ja) ( ばんしょう, banshō )
Khmer: ម្ទេស (km) ( mteeh )
Korean: 고추 (ko) ( gochu )
Lao: ໝາກເຜັດໃຫຍ່ (lo) ( māk phet nyai ) , ພິກ ( phik ) , ເຜັດ ( phet )
Latvian: paprika f
Lithuanian: paprika f
Macedonian: бабура f ( babura )
Malay: capsicum
Malayalam: മുളക് (ml) ( muḷakŭ )
Manx: lus yn phibbyr yiarg f
Maori: rapikama
Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: paprika m
Polish: papryka (pl) f
Portuguese: cápsico m
Romanian: ardei (ro) m
Russian: стручко́вый пе́рец m ( stručkóvyj pérec ) , пе́рец (ru) m ( pérec ) , сла́дкий пе́рец m ( sládkij pérec ) , болга́рский пе́рец m ( bolgárskij pérec ) , па́прика (ru) f ( páprika ) , ка́псикум m ( kápsikum ) ( special )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̀прика f
Roman: pàprika (sh) f
Slovak: paprika f
Spanish: pimiento (es) m
Swedish: paprika (sv) c
Thai: ชี้ฟ้า ( chíi-fáa ) , พริกหยวก ( prík-yùuak )
Tibetan: སུར་པན ( sur pan )
Ukrainian: стручко́вий пе́рець m ( stručkóvyj pérecʹ ) , па́прика f ( pápryka )
Uyghur: مۇچ ( much ) , كۆكمۇچ ( kökmuch )
Vietnamese: cây ớt