peppermint

English

Etymology

From pepper +‎ mint.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpəˌmɪnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpɚˌmɪnt/

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Noun

peppermint (countable and uncountable, plural peppermints)

1. A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections. [from 17th c.]
2. (Australia) Any of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils. [from 18th c.]
   • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 76:

     In the hissing flames, Greenhill and Travers boiled the bark from peppermint gums and roasted their kangaroo-skin jackets.

3. (countable) Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• peppermint geranium
• peppermintini
• peppermint oil
• peppermint shrimp
• peppermint stick
• peppermint tree

 

Descendants

• → French: paparmane
• → Japanese: ペパーミント (pepāminto)
• → Korean: 페퍼민트 (pepeominteu)

Translations

herb

• Albanian: nenexhik (sq) m, dhiozmë (sq) f, mendër e butë f
• Arabic: نَعْنَاع فِلْفِلِيّ m (naʕnāʕ filfiliyy)
• Armenian: անանուխ (hy) (ananux)
• Bulgarian: мента (bg) f (menta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡椒薄荷 (zh) (hújiāo bòhe), 薄荷 (zh) (bòhe)

• Czech: máta peprná (cs) f
• Danish: pebermynte c
• Esperanto: pipromento
• Estonian: piparmünt
• Finnish: piparminttu (fi)
• French: menthe poivrée (fr) f
• Galician: menta (gl) f
• German: Pfefferminze (de) f
• Greek: μέντα (el) f (ménta)
• Hindi: पुदीना (hi) m (pudīnā)
• Hungarian: borsmenta (hu)
• Hunsrik: Peffermenz f
• Icelandic: piparminta f
• Irish: lus an phiobair m, miontas piobair m
• Italian: menta piperita f
• Japanese: ペパーミント (pepāminto), 薄荷 (ja) (はっか, hakka), ミント (ja) (minto)
• Korean: 페퍼민트 (pepeominteu)
• Latvian: piparmētra f
• Luxembourgish: Peffermënz f
• Malay: pudina (ms)
• Manx: mynthey phibbyragh f
• Norman: pépermàn m (Guernsey), p'pèr'mène f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: peppermynte m

  Nynorsk: peparmynte m

• Persian: پونه (fa) (pune)
• Polish: mięta pieprzowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: hortelã-pimenta (pt) f
• Russian: пе́речная мя́та f (pérečnaja mjáta), мя́та (ru) f (mjáta)
• Sanskrit: अजगन्ध m (ajagandha)
• Slovene: poprova meta (sl) f
• Spanish: menta piperita f, piperita f
• Swedish: pepparmynta (sv) c
• Tagalog: menta
• Turkish: nane (tr), bahçe nanesi (tr)
• Urdu: پودینا m (podīnā)
• Welsh: mintys poethion f
• Yiddish: פֿעפֿערמינץ (fefermints), ענגלישע מענטע f (englishe mente)

confection

• Danish: pebermynte c
• Finnish: piparminttukaramelli
• German: Pfefferminzbonbon n, Pfefferminz (de) m or n
• Icelandic: piparminta f
• Italian: caramella alla menta f, mentina (it) f
• Norman: pépermàn m (Guernsey), p'pèr'mène f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: peppermynte m

  Nynorsk: peparmynte m

• Polish: miętówka (pl) f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English peppermint.

Noun

peppermint m (plural peppermints)

1. peppermint (various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb)

Further reading

• “peppermint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.