فلفل

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian پلپل (pelpel), from Indo-Aryan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil.fil/
  • (widespread) IPA(key): /ful.ful/

Noun

فِلْفِل • (filfil) m

  1. pepper (including sweet peppers, chilis as well as black pepper)

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: فلفل (felfel)

Verb

فَلْفَلَ • (falfala) Iq, non-past يُفَلْفِلُ‎ (yufalfilu)

  1. to put pepper on
  2. to curl

Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

Reborrowed from Arabic فِلْفِل (filfil), from Persian پلپل (pelpel), from Indo-Aryan. Compare Old Armenian պղպեղ (płpeł), պղպիղ (płpił) and Georgian პილპილი (ṗilṗili), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [fɪl.fɪ́l]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [fɪl.fɪ́l]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [fil.fíl̥]

Readings
Classical reading? filfil
Dari reading? filfil
Iranian reading? felfel
Tajik reading? filfil

Noun

Dari مرچ
Iranian Persian فلفل
Tajik филфил, мурч

فلفل • (felfel) (plural فلفل‌ها (felfel-hâ))

  1. pepper (including sweet peppers, chilis as well as black pepper)
  • فلفلی (felfeli)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Persian پلپل (pelpel).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil.fil/, [fɪl.fɪl]
  • (file)

Noun

فلفل • (filfil) m

  1. pepper (including sweet peppers, chilis as well as black pepper)

Derived terms

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