bell pepper

English

Etymology

From the bell-like shape.

Noun

bell pepper (countable and uncountable, plural bell peppers)

(Canada, US, Philippines) Capsicum annuum, an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy) fruit, originating in the New World.
Synonyms: sweet pepper (UK), capsicum (Australia)

Translations

spicy-sweet fruit

Afrikaans: soetrissie (af)
Arabic: فِلْفِل حُلْو (filfil ḥulw), فِلْفِل رُومِيّ m (filfil rūmiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: فلفل رومي m (felfel rumi)

Moroccan Arabic: فلفلة f (falfla)
Armenian: տաքդեղ (hy) (takʻdeġ), բիբար (hy) (bibar)
Bulgarian: чу́шка (bg) f (čúška)
Catalan: pebrot (ca) m
Chinese: 甜椒 (zh) (tiánjiāo), 燈籠椒／灯笼椒 (zh) (dēnglongjiāo)
Mandarin: 菜椒 (zh) (càijiāo)
Classical Nahuatl: chīlli
Danish: peberfrugt c, peber c, paprika (da) ?
Dutch: paprika (nl) f, (some fruit only) Spaanse peper (nl) ?
Esperanto: kapsiko, kapsikofrukto
Faroese: piparfrukt f
Finnish: paprika (fi)
French: poivron (fr) m
Galician: pemento (gl) m
Georgian: ბულგარული (bulgaruli). ბულგარული წიწაკა (bulgaruli c̣ic̣aḳa), წიწაკა (c̣ic̣aḳa)
German: Paprika (de) f or m, Gemüsepaprika f or m, Paprikaschote (de) f
Greek: πιπεριά (el) f (piperiá)
Greenlandic: qasilitsoq
Hawaiian: nīoi pūhaʻuhaʻu
Hebrew: גַּמְבָּה (he) f (gámba)
Hungarian: kaliforniai paprika (hu), bell paprika
Hunsrik: Pimentong m
Icelandic: paprika (is) f
Indonesian: paprika (id)
Italian: peperone (it) m
Japanese: ピーマン (ja) (pīman), パプリカ (ja) (papurika)
Korean: 피망 (ko) (pimang), 사자고추 (ko) (sajagochu) (North Korea)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: capsicum n
Latvian: paprika f, saldais pipars m
Lithuanian: paprika f
Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦵᦃᧁ (phiikẋew)
Macedonian: бабура f (babura)
Malay: lada benggala, lada besar, lada congcang, cabai selasih, cabai seberang, cabai acung
Malayalam: കാപ്സിക്കം (kāpsikkaṁ), മുളക് (ml) (muḷakŭ)
Maltese: bżar m
Maori: kīkini, rapikama
Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ, azeedíchʼííʼ dootłʼizh danímazígíí
Norwegian: paprika m
Persian: فلفل دلمه‌ای (fa) (felfel dolme-i)
Polish: papryka (pl) f
Portuguese: pimentão (pt) m, pimento (pt) m
Romanian: ardei (ro) m, ardei gras m, gogoșar (ro) m
Romansch: paivrun m
Russian: сла́дкий пе́рец m (sládkij pérec), болга́рский пе́рец m (bolgárskij pérec), стручко́вый пе́рец m (stručkóvyj pérec), пе́рец (ru) m (pérec), па́прика (ru) f (páprika), ка́псикум m (kápsikum) (special)
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Slovene: paprika (sl) f
Spanish: pimiento (es) m, chile dulce m (Costa Rica), chile morrón m (El Salvador, Honduras), chile pimiento m (Guatemala), chiltoma f (Nicaragua), locote m (Paraguay), morrón m (Argentina, Uruguay), pimentón (es) m (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela), pimiento morrón m (Mexico)
Swedish: paprika (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: సిమ్లా మిర్చి (simlā mirci), బెంగళూరు మిరపకాయ (beṅgaḷūru mirapakāya)
Thai: พริกหวาน, พริกหยวก (prík-yùuak)
Turkish: dolma biber (tr), dolmalık biber (tr), biber (tr)
Ukrainian: соло́дкий пе́рець m (solódkyj pérecʹ)
Vietnamese: ớt ngọt, ớt chuông
Walloon: poevron (wa) m
Wolof: kaani-salaat
Xhosa: itshilisi, ikhanakhana

References

bell pepper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Capsicum annuum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Capsicum annuum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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