köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit मरिच (marica) Sanskrit मरीच (marīca) Urdu مِرْچ (mirc)bor. Hindi मिर्च (mirc)bor. Classical Persian مُرْچ (murč)bor. Bashkir борос Borrowed from Classical Persian مُرْچ (murč), from Hindustani. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (murč, “Piper nigrum”); Kazakh бұрыш (būryş), Kyrgyz мурч (murc), Uzbek murch, Turkmen burç (“pepper”).
The chili pepper, often specifically the Korean chili pepper, a variety of Capsicum annuum. · willy, wee-wee, penis
köken: First attested in the Gugeupganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 1489, as Middle Korean 고쵸〮 (Yale: kwòchyó). Its original meaning was “black pepper”. Two hypotheses exist regarding its origin: # From Japanese 胡椒(こしょう) (koshō), in turn from Chinese 胡椒 [Sino-Korean reading 호초 (hocho)]. # From 고초(苦草) (gocho, “bitter vegetable”), acquiring its current meaning after the introduction of chili peppers…
köken: Probably from arde + -ei. Other theories suggest deriving from the plural of an extinct diminutive word *ardel, or from a Vulgar Latin root *ardivus, ultimately from Latin ardeō.