paprika

Meanings

Noun

• 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).
• A variety of the spice.
• A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
• A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.

Adjective

• Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.

Related

Similar words

• green pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper, yellow pepper, bell pepper, capsicum

Origin

• Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι, from Indic; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि. Akin to paprikash.