allspice

English

branch with fruits, whence the spice

whole allspice (spice)

Etymology

all + spice, as it was thought to combine the flavours of various other spices.

Pronunciation

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Noun

allspice (countable and uncountable, plural allspices)

1. (uncountable) A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
2. (countable) Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.

Synonyms

• (spice): pimento
• (tree): Jamaica pepper

Derived terms

• allspiced
• Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus)

 

Translations

spice

• Afrikaans: wonderpeper
• Arabic: بَهَار حُلْو m (bahār ḥulw), فِلْفِل إِفْرَنْجِيّ m (filfil ʔifranjiyy)
• Basque: jamaikako piperbeltz
• Bulgarian: бахар (bg) (bahar)
• Catalan: pebre de Jamaica m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多香果 (zh) (duōxiāngguǒ), 眾香子 / 众香子 (zh) (zhòngxiāngzi), 牙買加胡椒 / 牙买加胡椒 (zh) (Yámǎijiā hújiāo)

• Czech: nové koření (cs) n
• Danish: allehånde c
• Dutch: lontai m (Suriname)
• Esperanto: pimento (eo)
• Faroese: alhanda n
• Finnish: maustepippuri (fi)
• French: quatre-épices (fr), tout-épice m, piment de la jamaïque m
• Galician: pementa de Xamaica (gl) f
• Georgian: მიხაკი (mixaḳi), ბაჰარი (bahari)
• German: Piment (de) m or n, Neugewürz n, Nelkenpfeffer m, Jamaikapfeffer m, Modegewürz n (archaic)
• Greek: μπαχάρι (el) n (bachári)
• Hungarian: szegfűbors (hu)
• Icelandic: allrahanda n, negulpipar m
• Italian: pepe della Giamaica m
• Jamaican Creole: pimento
• Japanese: オールスパイス (ōrusupaisu)
• Korean: 올스파이스나무 (olseupaiseu-namu)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: најгвирц m (najgvirc), најквирц m (najkvirc)
• Malay: rempah tiga rasa
• Manx: pibbyr Injinagh m
• Norman: toute-êpice f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allehånde (no) m

  Nynorsk: allehande m

• Polish: ziele angielskie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pimenta-da-jamaica f
• Romanian: ienibahar (ro) n
• Russian: гвозди́чный пе́рец m (gvozdíčnyj pérec), яма́йский пе́рец m (jamájskij pérec), души́стый пе́рец m (dušístyj pérec)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на̀јгвирц m, на̀јквирц m, пѝме̄нта f, пѝмент m

  Latin: nàjgvirc (sh) m, nàjkvirc (sh) m, pìmēnta (sh) f, pìmеnt m

• Slovak: nové korenie n
• Slovene: píment m
• Spanish: pimienta de Jamaica f
• Swedish: kryddpeppar (sv) c
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: baharat (tr), yenibahar (tr)
• Ukrainian: духмя́ний пе́рець m (duxmjányj pérecʹ)
• Yiddish: ענגלישער פֿעפֿער m (englisher fefer)

tree

• Catalan: pebrer de Jamaica m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多香果 (zh) (duōxiāngguǒ), 眾香子 / 众香子 (zh) (zhòngxiāngzi), 牙買加胡椒 / 牙买加胡椒 (zh) (Yámǎijiā hújiāo)

• Finnish: maustepippuri (fi)
• Galician: pementeira de Xamaica (gl) f
• Greek: αρωματοπιπέρι (aromatopipéri)
• Jamaican Creole: pimento tree
• Japanese: オールスパイス (ōrusupaisu)
• Polish: korzennik lekarski m
• Portuguese: pimenteira da Jamaica f
• Russian: гвозди́чное де́рево n (gvozdíčnoje dérevo), гвозди́чный пе́рец m (gvozdíčnyj pérec), пиме́нта лека́рственная f (piménta lekárstvennaja)
• Slovene: pímentovec m
• Swedish: kryddpepparträd n

References

• allspice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:allspice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pimenta dioica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pimenta dioica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

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