Etymology

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Today it means: chili peppers or chili pepper-related products from Japan, specifically the spice mixture consisting of mandarin orange peel, sesame seed, poppy seed, hemp seed, nori or aonori, and ground sansho Full definition →

Japanese 唐辛子
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from唐辛子
  2. English todaytogarashi

Borrowed from Japanese 唐辛子 (tōgarashi), Japanese for the genus Capsicum, or specifically the species Capsicum annuum, and commonly translated as “chili pepper”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.