Meanings
nounblack pepper (uncountable)
- uncountableThe plant Piper nigrum.
- uncountableThe dried, unripe berries (peppercorns) of the Piper nigrum plant which are commonly used as a spice and seasoning. They are either used whole, or in a ground or crushed form.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounclimber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
Similar
Broader
true pepperpepper vine
Also see
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic فِلْفِل أَسْوَد
- فِلْفِل أَسْوَد (filfil ʔaswad)spice
Basque piper beltz
- piper beltzspice
Bengali গোল মরিচ
- গোল মরিচ (gōl moric)spice
Bulgarian че́рен пипе́р
- че́рен пипе́р (čéren pipér)spice
Catalan pebre negre
- pebre negrespice
Chinese Cantonese 黑胡椒
- 黑胡椒 (haak¹ wu⁴ ziu¹)spice
Chinese Mandarin 黑胡椒
- 黑胡椒 (hēihújiāo)spice
Czech pepř černý
- pepř černýspice
Danish sort peber
- sort peberspice
Dutch zwarte peper
- zwarte peperspice
Estonian must pipar
- must piparspice
Finnish mustapippuri
- mustapippurispice
French poivre noir
- poivre noirspice
German schwarzer Pfeffer
- schwarzer Pfefferspice
Greek μαυροπίπερο
- μαυροπίπερο (mavropípero)spice
Hebrew פִּלְפֵּל שָׁחֹר
- פִּלְפֵּל שָׁחֹר (pilpél shakhór)spice
Hindi काली मिर्च
- काली मिर्च (kālī mirc)spice
Hungarian feketebors
- feketeborsspice
Icelandic svartur pipar
- svartur piparspice
Indonesian lada hitam
- lada hitamspice
Irish piobar dubh
- piobar dubhspice
Italian pepe, pepe nero
- pepespice
- pepe nerospice
Japanese 黒コショウ, 黒胡椒
- 黒コショウ (kurokoshō)spice
- 黒胡椒 (kurokoshō)spice
- ブラックペッパー (burakku peppā)spice
Korean 흑후추
- 흑후추 (heukhuchu)spice
Latin piper nigrum
- piper nigrumspice
Latvian melnais piparkrūms
- melnais piparkrūmsspice
Lithuanian juodasis pipiras
- juodasis pipirasspice
Malay lada hitam, lada benar (Kelantan)
- lada hitamspice
- lada benar (Kelantan)spice
Norwegian Bokmål svart pepper
- svart pepperspice
Polish pieprz czarny, pieprz
- pieprz czarnyspice
- pieprzspice
Portuguese pimenta-do-reino, pimenta-preta
- pimenta-do-reinospice
- pimenta-pretaspice
- pimenta-negraspice
- pimenta-redondaspice
Punjabi ਕਾਲ਼ੀ ਮਿਰਚ
- ਕਾਲ਼ੀ ਮਿਰਚ (kāḷī mirac)spice
Romanian piper negru
- piper negruspice
Russian чёрный пе́рец
- чёрный пе́рец (čórnyj pérec)spice
Slovak čierne korenie, piepor čierny
- čierne koreniespice
- piepor čiernyspice
Spanish pimienta negra
- pimienta negraspice
Swahili mpilipili manga, pilipili manga
- mpilipili mangaplant Piper nigrum
- pilipili mangaspice
Swedish svartpeppar
- svartpepparspice
Tagalog pamintang itim
- pamintang itimspice
Thai พริกไทยดำ
- พริกไทยดำ (prík-tai-dam)spice
Turkish karabiber
- karabiberspice
Ukrainian чо́рний пе́рець
- чо́рний пе́рець (čórnyj pérecʹ)spice
Urdu کالی مِرْچ
- کالی مِرْچ (kālī mirc)spice
Vietnamese hạt tiêu, hồ tiêu
- hạt tiêuspice
- hồ tiêuspice
- tiêu ănspice
Yiddish שוואַרצער פֿעפֿער
- שוואַרצער פֿעפֿער (shvartser fefer)spice
Cite this entry
APA
black pepper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20pepper
MLA
“black pepper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20pepper. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black pepper,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20pepper.
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