chili

• chile, chilli, chilly
• chile (US)
• chilli (Britain)
• chilly (Commonwealth)

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪli/

  • Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪliː/

  • Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• Rhymes: -ɪli
• Homophones: Chile, chile, chilli, chilly

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

chili (countable and uncountable, plural chilis or chilies)

1. (countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.

   Synonym: chili pepper

   • 1874, Finlay Dun, “Peppers”, in Veterinary Medicines: Their Actions and Uses, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, →OCLC, pages 442–443:

     Capsicum—the dried ripe fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum—is also known as Chilly pepper, Chillies, Guinea, or pod pepper, and is chiefly brought from Zanzibar. The several varieties differ in shape and size, are of a red colour, and filled with numerous red-brown, pungent seeds.

   • 2014, Jennifer Olvera, “Suburban Stunners, Stalwarts & Surprises”, in Amy Lyons, editor, Food Lovers’ Guide to Chicago: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings (Food Lovers’ Series), 2nd edition, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 187:

     Kama Indian Bistro, […] Everything is made from scratch, including the spice blends and sauces; the ingredients are quality; and the heat is no-holds-barred. Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.

2. (uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

   Synonym: chili powder

3. (Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.

• → Dutch: chili
• → Malay: cili
• → Welsh: tsili

Ellipsis of chili con carne, from Spanish chile con carne (literally “chili with meat”).

chili (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.

   Synonym: chili con carne

2. (Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.

• Ilchi, lichi

chili

1. chili

• (Amecameca, Cholula and Milpa Alta): chilli

From Classical Nahuatl chilli.

chili

1. chili pepper

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

• Rhymes: -i

chili c (singular definite chilien, plural indefinite chilier)

1. chili

   Synonym: chilipeber

• “chili” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowing from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(t)ʃi.li/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: chi‧li
• Rhymes: -ili

chili m (plural chilis)

1. chili pepper

   Synonym: chilipeper

2. chili (dish)

• Chili (doorverwijspagina on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English chili, from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃili/, [ˈt̪ʃili]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtsili/, [ˈts̠ili]
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification^(key): chi‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): chi‧li

chili

1. chili

   Synonyms: chilipippuri, (archaic) turkinpippuri

• chili is seldom used to describe the sauce outside of the fixed name chili con carne. It may instead be called chilikastike or salsa.

• “chili”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Spanish chili.

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.li/, /tʃi.li/

• Audio:

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chili m

1. chili, chili con carne

chili m

1. plural of chilo

• lichi

chili m

1. chili

• “chili” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “chili” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

chili m

1. chili

• “chili” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

chili

1. chili pepper

• chilli

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish chili.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʂi.li/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: chi‧li

chili n (indeclinable)

1. chili (spicy fresh or dried fruit of capsicum)
2. chili (spice)

• chili in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chili in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• chile

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

chili m (plural chilis)

1. chili pepper (piquant fruit of Capsicum plants, especially the varieties used in Mexican cuisine)
2. (uncountable) chili (spice made from chili peppers)
3. (uncountable) chili; chili con carne (dish of meat, beans, tomato sauce and chili)

a chili (third-person singular present chilește, past participle chilit) 4th conjugation

1. obsolete form of pili

• chili in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃili/ [ˈt͡ʃi.li]
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: chi‧li

chili m (plural chilis)

1. chili, chili con carne (dish)

   Synonym: chili con carne

• “chili”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

chili c

1. chili (chili pepper; chili powder)

   Synonym: chilipeppar

   krydda med chili

   season with chili

Not of entire dishes. A spicy stew is often called a "chiligryta" (chili stew), for example.

• chilifrukt
• chilipeppar
• chilipulver
• chilisås

• chili con carne
• sriracha
• stark (“hot, spicy”)

• chili in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• chili in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

chili

1. chili pepper.