Paprika Definition
pă-prēkə, pə-, păprĭ-kə
noun
A mild or hot, red, powdered condiment ground from certain capsicums, grown esp. in central Europe and the American tropics.
Webster's New World
A dark to deep or vivid reddish orange.
American Heritage
(countable) A variety of the spice.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- sweet pepper plant
- pimiento
- Capsicum annuum grossum
- pimento
- bell-pepper
- sweet-pepper
adjective
Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Paprika
Noun
Singular:
paprika
Plural:
paprikasOrigin of Paprika
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From Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika/па̀прика, from pȁpar/па̏пар (“pepper"), from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (peperi, “pepper"). Akin to paprikash.
From Wiktionary
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Hungarian from Serbian from papar ground pepper from Slavic piprŭ from Latin piper pepper
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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