Sichuan pepper

English

Sichuan pepper pods.

Alternative forms

• Szechuan pepper

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

Sichuan pepper (usually uncountable, plural Sichuan peppers)

1. (countable, uncountable) The outer pod of the tiny fruit of a number of species in the genus Zanthoxylum widely grown and consumed in Asia as a spice. Not closely related to black pepper or to chilli peppers.
2. (uncountable) Spice made from this pod.
3. (countable) A plant producing the pods, Zanthoxylum

Synonyms

• (pod and spice): fagara pepper, flower pepper

Hyponyms

• (plant): Same as holonyms of the pod.

Holonyms

• (pod): Zanthoxylum piperitum, Zanthoxylum sancho, Zanthoxylum schinifolium, Zanthoxylum simulans

Translations

pod of Zanthoxylum

• Arabic: فَاغِرَة f (fāḡira)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܦܥܪܐ m (pāʿrā)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: জাব্ৰাং (zabraṅ)
• Batak:

  Karo Batak: tuba

  Toba Batak: andaliman

• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花椒 (faa¹ ziu¹) (Sichuan pepper), 山椒 (saan¹ ziu¹) (Japanese sanshō)

  Mandarin: 花椒 (zh) (huājiāo), (less common) 山椒 (zh) (shānjiāo)

• Czech: sečuánský pepř m
• Finnish: sichuaninpippuri, anispippuri, kiinanpippuri
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Gujarati: ચીરફળ (cīrphaḷ)
• Hindi: तेजफल (tejphal)
• Japanese: 山椒 (ja) (sanshō)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Konkani: तिरफळ (tirphaḷ)
• Korean: 초피 (chopi) (Z. piperitum), 산초 (sancho) (Z. schinifolium)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: चिरफळ (cirphaḷ)
• Nepali: टिमुर (ṭimura)
• Persian: فاخِره (fâxere)
• Polish: pieprz syczuański (pl) m
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: sečuanski papar m, sečuanski biber m, japanski papar m, japanski biber m
• Swedish: sichuanpeppar (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: གཡེར་མ (g.yer ma)
• Vietnamese: tiêu Tứ Xuyên