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black pepper

black pepper noun: the plant Piper nigrum.

black pepper: the plant Piper nigrum
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Noun

black pepper (uncountable)

  1. The plant Piper nigrum.
  2. The 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.

black pepper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

black pepper in Hindi

spice
काली मिर्च kālī mirc

black pepper in Tamil

மிளகு

black pepper in Marathi

spice
काळी मिरी kāḷī mirī

black pepper in Urdu

spice
کالی مِرْچ kālī mirc
More languagesFewer languages
black pepper in Bengali
গোল মরিচ gōl moric
black pepper in Telugu
మిరియము miriyamu
black pepper in Malayalam
കുരുമുളക് kurumuḷakŭ
black pepper in Kannada
ಕರಿಮೆಣಸು karimeṇasu, ಮೆಣಸು meṇasu
black pepper in Punjabi
ਕਾਲ਼ੀ ਮਿਰਚ kāḷī mirac
black pepper in Gujarati
મરી marī
black pepper in Odia
ବୀର bira
black pepper in Sanskrit
कृष्ण
black pepper in Assamese
জালুক zaluk
black pepper in Tagalog
pamintang itim
black pepper in Arabic
فِلْفِل أَسْوَد filfil ʔaswad
black pepper in Malay
lada hitam
black pepper in Indonesian
lada hitam
black pepper in Thai
พริกไทยดำ prík-tai-dam
black pepper in Vietnamese
hạt tiêu, hồ tiêu, tiêu ăn
Sindhi
ڪارو مرچ kāro mircu
Dhivehi
އަސޭމިރުސް asēmirus

Questions about black pepper

What does black pepper mean?
Black pepper means the plant Piper nigrum.
What is black pepper in Hindi?
Black pepper in Hindi is काली मिर्च (kālī mirc). See Black pepper meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is black pepper?
Black pepper is a noun.

Words near black pepper in the dictionary

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  6. black pepper
  7. black pepper snake
  8. black pepper snakes
  9. black persimmon
  10. Black Pete
  11. Black Peter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: black pepper (page history and authors); black pepper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കുരുമുളക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ବୀର (Odia) (page history and authors); कृष्ण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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