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chilli
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English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: chili
Noun
chilli (plural chillis or chillies)
- Alternative spelling of chili.
- 1996 June 23, Magdalene Lum, The Straits Times:
- Many Singaporeans have fond memories of eating chilli crabs and cockles at its Upper East Coast Road premises, not far from the old Bedok Road, as recently as the early ‘ 80s.
Derived terms
Translations
chili — see chili
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Central Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- (Tlaxcala): chili
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl chilli.
Noun
chilli
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
Noun
chīlli inan (plural chīlli)
- (it is) a chili pepper
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 30r:
- A xi pimienta dela tierra. chilli.
- A chili, a pepper from the land. chilli.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 17v. col. 2:
- Axi o pimienta deſta tierra. chilli.
- Chili, or pepper from this land. chilli.
- Idem, f. 21r. col. 1.
- Chilli. axi. o pimienta de las indias.
- Chilli. a chili, or pepper from the Indies.
- Chilli. axi. o pimienta de las indias.
Derived terms
Terms derived from chīlli
Descendants
References
- Alonso de Molina (2008), Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, pages 30, 17
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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
Cognate with Classical Nahuatl chīlli.
Noun
chilli
Derived terms
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English chilli.
Pronunciation
Noun
chilli n (indeclinable)
- alternative spelling of chili
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