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فِلْفِل
pepper (the spice, especially black pepper) /ˈfil.fil/
nounB2#4210 most common
Also: peppercorn, chili pepper (dialectal), bell pepper (dialectal, e.g. فلفل رومي)
Example sentences
أَضَعُ فِلْفِلًا عَلَى الطَّعَامِ.
I put pepper on the food.
أُحِبُّ الفِلْفِلَ الأَسْوَدَ في طَعامي.
I like black pepper in my food.
اِشْتَرَتْ أُمِّي كِيلُو مِنَ الفِلْفِلِ الأَحْمَرِ الحارِّ مِنَ السُّوقِ.
My mother bought a kilo of hot red pepper from the market.
يُضِيفُ الطُّهاةُ الفِلْفِلَ الأَسْوَدَ المَطْحُونَ لِتَعْزِيزِ نَكْهَةِ الشُّورَبَةِ.
Chefs add ground black pepper to enhance the flavor of the soup.
تَخْتَلِفُ حِدَّةُ الفِلْفِلِ الحارِّ باخْتِلافِ نِسْبَةِ مادَّةِ الكابسايسين فيهِ.
The heat of chili pepper varies with the proportion of capsaicin it contains.
على الرَّغْمِ مِنْ أَنَّ الفُلْفُلَ الأَسْوَدَ كانَ يُعادِلُ وَزْنُهُ الذَّهَبَ في العُصُورِ الوُسْطى، فَإِنَّهُ أَصْبَحَ اليَوْمَ مِنْ أَرْخَصِ التَّوابِلِ وَأَكْثَرِها انْتِشارًا.
Although black pepper once weighed out against gold in the Middle Ages, today it is one of the cheapest and most common spices.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فِلْفِلٌ | فَلَافِلُ |
| Genitive | فِلْفِلٍ | فَلَافِلَ |
| Accusative | فِلْفِلًا | فَلَافِلَ |
| Vocative | يا فِلْفِلُ | يا فَلَافِلُ |
Word family
فَلْفَلَto season with pepper; to enliven speech
مُفَلْفَلpeppered; frizzy, tightly curled hair
فُلَيْفِلsmall pepper (diminutive)
فِلْفِلِيّpepper-colored; peppery
Etymology
Arabic فِلْفِل traces back to Sanskrit pippalī, the name for long pepper, a plant native to India. The word moved west along trade routes, passing through Persian on its way into Arabic, while a separate branch passed through Greek péperi and Latin piper into most European languages. Arabic filfil and English pepper are therefore distant relatives, each borrowed independently from the same ancient source rather than from each other.
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