Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)

Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by yumraj on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:07PM (#27229400)

Does anyone know what it's called in India, in any Indian language. I ask since it looks like it's native to India but I'd never heard of long pepper before this article and now I'm intrigued..

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by ravedave5 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:11PM (#27229426)

The wikipedia article indicates this Hindi article for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_pepper

https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0...

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by raj2569 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:41PM (#27230239)

https://ml.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%...

Its called തിപ്പലി (Thippali) in Malayalam, now used in home medicines esp for cold.

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by yumraj on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:21PM (#27229499)

Thanks. The Hindi translation simply seems to use the name pipli mentioned in the English.

Pipli sounds familiar but I can't place it for sure. I'll have to ask folks back home..

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by hawk_ on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:42AM (#27231175)

we call it peepal (as in peepal ka ped)

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by Neurocynic on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:55AM (#27231532)

nope. pippili (Indian long pepper) is a vine/creeper and a completely different family from Peepal (sacred fig)

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by selimthegrim on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:45PM (#27229636)

I believe cubeb in Hindi is often conflated with long pepper

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by nieve on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:27PM (#27229522)

A couple of sources say it's pippali in Hindi, but I can't confirm that.

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Re:Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper ... by yumraj on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:31PM (#27229555)

Yes, that is what the Wikipedia says as pointed by other person in the sibling post.

The word sounds familiar but i can’t place it. It seems it was just not used in our family. You learn something new every day..

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