chili

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• /ˈt͡ʃaɪlaɪ/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
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• UK: /ˈt͡ʃɪliː/
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• homophone: Chile
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• CMU ARPABET: CH IH1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Ellipsis of chili con carne, from Spanish chile con carne (literally “chili with meat”).

131 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: апарпы́лца (apʼarpʼə́lca) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Abkhaz: апарпы́лбагәа (apʼarpʼə́lbagwa) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Arabic: فِلْفِل حَار (filfil ḥār) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Arabic: فلفل حراق (felfel ḥarrāʔ) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Armenian: չիլի (čʻili) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Armenian: չիլի պղպեղ (čʻili pġpeġ) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Assamese: জলকীয়া (zolokia) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Assamese: মৰিচ (moris) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Assamese: ভূঁই-জালুক (bhũi-zaluk) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Bulgarian: лют червен пипер (ljut červen piper) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Burmese: ငရုတ် (nga.rut) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Chamicuro: chichi — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Chinese Cantonese: 辣椒 (laat6 ziu1) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Chinese Cantonese: 椒 (ziu1) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Eastern Min Chinese: 番椒 (huăng-ciĕu) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Eastern Min Chinese: 辣椒 (lăk-ciĕu) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Chinese Mandarin: 辣椒 (làjiāo) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Chinese Mandarin: 椒 (jiāo) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Danish: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Dutch: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Dutch: chilipeper — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Dzongkha: ཨེ་མ (e ma) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Esperanto: kapsiketo — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Fijian: boro gaga — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Finnish: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Finnish: chilipippuri — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Finnish: chili-pippuri — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• French: piment — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Galician: chile — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Georgian: წიწაკა (c̣ic̣aḳa) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• German: Chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Greek: τσίλι (tsíli) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Gujarati: મરચું (marcũ) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hawaiian: nīoi — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hebrew: פלפלת צ׳ילי — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hindi: मिर्च (mirc) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hindi: हरी मिर्च (harī mirc) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• White Hmong: kua txob — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hungarian: csili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Hungarian: csilipaprika — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Indonesian: cabai — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Indonesian: lombok — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Italian: peperoncino — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Japanese: チリ (chiri) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Japanese: 唐辛子 (tōgarashi) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Javanese: lombok — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (lombok) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Kannada: ಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ (meṇasinakāyi) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Kaqchikel: ik — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Khmer: ម្ទេស (mteih) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Kituba: pilipili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Korean: 칠리 (chilli) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Korean: 고추 (gochu) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Lao: ຫມາກເຜັດ (māk phet) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Latvian: čili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Lingala: pilipili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Lithuanian: paprika — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦘᦲᧅ (ṁaakphiik) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Malay: cabai — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Malay: lada (Sumatra, Negeri Sembilan) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Malay: cili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Malay: lombok — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Malayalam: മുളക് (muḷakŭ) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᡴᡳᡵᡳ (kakiri) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Māori: hirikakā — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Marathi: लाल मिरची (lāl mircī) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Mongolian: улаан чинжүү (ulaan činžüü) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Classical Nahuatl: chilli — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Navajo: azeedíchʼííʼ — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Norwegian Bokmål: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Norwegian Nynorsk: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Odia: ଲଙ୍କାମରିଚ (laṅkāmarica) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Panamint: tsita — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Persian: فلفل قرمز (felfel-e qermez) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Pohnpeian: sele — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Polish: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Portuguese: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Portuguese: chile — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Quechua: utsu — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Quechua: uchu — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Rarotongan: ‘ōporo — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Russian: кра́сный пе́рец (krásnyj pérec) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Russian: го́рький пе́рец (górʹkij pérec) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Russian: пе́рец чи́ли (pérec číli) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Russian: чи́ли (číli) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Sango: piripiri — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Spanish: chile — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Spanish: ají — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Spanish: pimiento — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Swahili: pili pili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Swedish: chili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Swedish: chilipeppar — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Sylheti: ꠝꠞꠤꠌ (moris) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tagalog: sile — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tahitian: ‘ōporo — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tamil: மிளகாய் (miḷakāy) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Taos: cìliʼíne — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Telugu: ఎండు మిరపకాయ (eṇḍu mirapakāya) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Thai: พริก (prík) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Southern Thai: ดีปรี — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tibetan: བསིལ་སྨན (bsil sman) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tibetan: དམར་ཚ (dmar tsha) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Turkish: acı biber — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Tz'utujil: iik — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Urdu: مرچ (mirca, mirc) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Uyghur: لازا (laza) — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Vietnamese: ớt — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Welsh: tsili — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Yucatec Maya: yeh u'yaal a'kab yich che' — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Zhuang: lwgmanh — spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum
• Arabic: شطة (šaṭṭa) — spice
• Chinese Cantonese: 辣椒 (laat6 ziu1) — spice
• Chinese Cantonese: 辣椒粉 (laat6 ziu1 fan2) — spice
• Chinese Mandarin: 辣椒 (làjiāo) — spice
• Chinese Mandarin: 辣椒粉 (làjiāofěn) — spice
• Finnish: chilipulveri — spice
• Finnish: chili — spice
• Galician: chile — spice
• Greek: τσίλι (tsíli) — spice
• Hungarian: csili — spice
• Malayalam: മുളക് (muḷakŭ) — spice
• Norwegian Bokmål: chili — spice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: chili — spice
• Polish: chili — spice
• Portuguese: chili — spice
• Portuguese: chile — spice
• Spanish: ají molido — spice
• Spanish: pimienta roja — spice
• Spanish: ají en polvo — spice
• Swedish: chili — spice
• Vietnamese: ớt — spice