red pepper

English

Noun

red pepper (plural red peppers)

1. A red-colored, ripe, bell or sweet pepper. Unripe peppers of this variety are green and edible but not as sweet.
2. (US) Spicy pepper.

   Crushed red pepper flakes add zest to pizza.

Capsicum annuum

Usage notes

• red pepper for a ripe sweet pepper is normal usage in Britain, either use can occur in the United States.

Translations

red colored pepper

• Armenian: կարմիր պղպեղ (hy) (karmir pġpeġ)
• Bulgarian: черве́н пипе́р m (červén pipér)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅椒 / 红椒 (hung⁴ ziu¹)

  Mandarin: 菜椒 (zh) (càijiāo)

• Estonian: punane pipar
• Esperanto: papriko
• Finnish: paprika (fi)
• French: paprika (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Paprika (de) m or f
• Hawaiian: nīoi
• Indonesian: paprika (id)
• Irish: piobar dearg m
• Japanese: ピーマン (ja) (pīman)
• Kazakh: қызыл бұрыш (qyzyl būryş)
• Korean: 피망 (ko) (pimang)
• Kyrgyz: калемпир (ky) (kalempir)
• Macedonian: цр́вена пи́перка f (cŕvena píperka), цр́вена ба́бура f (cŕvena bábura)
• Manx: pibbyr jiarg m
• Marathi: लाल शिमला मिरची (lāl śimlā mircī)
• Persian: فلفل قرمز (fa) (felfel qermez)
• Portuguese: pimenta vermelha f
• Romanian: ardei roșu (ro) m
• Russian: кра́сный пе́рец (ru) m (krásnyj pérec), болга́рский пе́рец m (bolgárskij pérec) (sweet, lit.: "Bulgarian pepper"), па́прика (ru) f (páprika)
• Swahili: pilipili hoho (sw)
• Turkish: kırmızı biber
• Uzbek: qalampir (uz)