tailed pepper, cubeb (Piper cubeba) · chili pepper · capsicum
köken: From Proto-Vietic *ʔəːt. Pigneau de Béhaine's Dictionarium anamitico-latinum (1772 manuscript) glosses ớt as pimentum, a Neo-Latin derivation from French piment (“‘spice’ → ‘chilli pepper’”). Phạm Đình Hổ's 1827 dictionary Nhật dụng thường đàm (日用常談 "Common Words Used Daily") glosses ớt 乙 as 蓽䔲茄 (SV: tất đăng gia; "tailed pepper, cubeb, Piper cubeba"), also called tiêu thất in Vietnamese; so that…
chili pepper, varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus Capsicum cultivated for their pungency. · black pepper, Piper nigrum.
çekim: çoğul മുളകുകൾ · tamlayan മുളകിന്റെ
köken: Inherited from Proto-South Dravidian I *miḷVku. Cognate with Kannada ಮೆಣಸು (meṇasu, “pepper”) and Tamil மிளகு (miḷaku, “black pepper”). Originally referred to black pepper before undergoing a semantic shift to its current meaning, chillies being native to the Americas.