peppercorn

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• UK: /ˈpɛpəkɔːn/
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• General-American: /ˈpɛpɚkɔɹn/
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Inherited from Middle English peper corn, peper-corn, pepercorn, from Old English piporcorn (“peppercorn”), corresponding to pepper + corn. Compare Dutch peperkorrel (“peppercorn”), German Pfefferkorn (“peppercorn”), Danish peberkorn (“peppercorn”), Swedish pepparkorn (“peppercorn”), Icelandic piparkorn (“peppercorn”).

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Assamese: গোল মৰিচ (gül moris) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Central Bikol: paminta — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Catalan: gra de pebre — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Chinese Mandarin: 胡椒子 (hújiāozǐ) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Chinese Mandarin: 胡椒粒 (hújiāolì) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Dutch: peperkorrel — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Esperanto: pipro — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Finnish: pippuri — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Finnish: pippurinmarja — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• French: grain de poivre — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• German: Pfefferkorn — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Greek: πιπερόκοκκος (piperókokkos) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Hindi: गोलमिर्च (golmirc) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Hungarian: borsszem — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Irish: piobarchaor — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Italian: grano di pepe — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פלפלתא — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: פלפלא — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Latin: grānum piperis — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦓᦾᧉ (phiiknoay2) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Plautdietsch: Päpakuarn — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Polish: ziarnko pieprzu — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Romanian: boabă de piper — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Russian: перец (perets) — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Swedish: pepparkorn — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Tagalog: paminta — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Welsh: grawn pupur — the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum
• Finnish: hitunen — a small, insignificant quantity
• Polish: ździebko — a small, insignificant quantity