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pepper
English
Alternative forms
- piper (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the European spice.
Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of peepul.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?p?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(?)
Noun
pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (Britain, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
Synonyms
- (fruit of the capsicum):
- (spicy): chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
- (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: pepa
- ? Hawaiian: pepa
- ? Marshallese: pepa
Translations
Verb
pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
Derived terms
- bepepper
- peppering
Related terms
Translations
See also
- salt
- Wikipedia article on pepper
- Wikipedia article on peppers (fruits of the capsicum plant)
Middle English
Noun
pepper
- Alternative form of peper
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse piparr
Pronunciation
Noun
pepper m (definite singular pepperen)
- pepper (spice)
Derived terms
- pepperkake
- peppermynte
See also
- pepar (Nynorsk)
References
- “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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aji
English
Etymology 1
Noun
aji (uncountable)
- A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.
Etymology 2
From Japanese ? (aji).
Noun
aji (uncountable)
- A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus
Etymology 3
From Japanese ? (aji, “flavour”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ??-j?, IPA(key): /?æ.d?i?/; IPA(key): /???.d?i?/
Noun
aji (uncountable)
- (go) bad aji
- (go) The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.
Usage notes
The sense of “lingering possibilities” is more basic but probably less common.
Derived terms
- bad aji
- good aji
Anagrams
- JIA, Jai, Jia
Czech
Alternative forms
- aj
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aj?/
Conjunction
aji
- (dialect, Moravia) and (also), and even
- (dialect, Moravia) even (implying an extreme example, used at the beginning of sentences)
Synonyms
- (standard Czech) i
Further reading
- aji in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Drehu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ði/
Noun
aji
- rat
References
- Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
- Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?De’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French agir (“act”).
Verb
aji
- act
References
- [1]
Japanese
Romanization
aji
- R?maji transcription of ??
- R?maji transcription of ??
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese agir.
Alternative forms
- ají (Barlavento)
Verb
aji
- (Sotavento) act
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
- Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro
Marshallese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ? (hashi).
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [?z?i]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /?æt?ij/
- Bender phonemes: {hajiy}
Noun
aji
- chopsticks
References
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ad?i/
Etymology
From Marathi ??? (?j?)
Noun
aji
- grandmother
- Synonym: granmer
Northern Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?aji?/
Noun
aji
- drowse, doze
- daze
Inflection
Derived terms
- adjágas
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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