piper

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪ.pə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)

piper (plural pipers)

1. A musician who plays a pipe.
2. A bagpiper.
   • 2020 May 20, “Railway remembers VE Day with a series of tributes”, in Rail, page 15:

     At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.

3. A baby pigeon.
4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
6. A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
7. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
8. (slang) A person who smokes crack cocaine.
   • 2025, Rev. Yolanda E. Johnson, ‎Dr. Viola J. Malone, Journey: Pain and Purpose

     On one occasion after returning from vacation one of the 'pipers' (crack addicts) as they were called, was in my kitchen cooking. That was the last straw.

• (bagpiper): bagpiper
• (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick

• bagpiper
• hornpiper

piper

1. Archaic form of pepper.

• PIREP

• piperu, chiper

From Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).

piper m

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

• mpipiredz

• pipercã
• sari

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piper

1. to pipe (a bagpipe)

• ne pas piper mot
• sans piper mot

• “piper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”), itself of unknown origin (perhaps a Dravidian or other substrate language of the Indian subcontinent). The declension was changed to a rhotic-stem.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɪ.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.per]

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

1. pepper
   • compiled by 5th century CE, Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.12:

     ...Et, cum siccaverint, super aspargis piper tritum et inferes. Ad mensam nemo agnoscet quid manducet.

     ...And, when they get dry, sprinkle mashed pepper on them, and serve. At the table, no one will know what they're eating.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• piperātārius
• piperātōrium
• piperātum
• piperātus
• piperita
• piperō (“bell pepper”)

• piperītis

• “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “piper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piper”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Old English pīpere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -ere (suffix forming agent nouns); compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pfīfari.

• pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpər(ə)/

piper (plural pipers)

1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.

• English: piper
• Scots: piper
• Yola: peepeare, pipere

• “peper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 January 2022.

piper

1. alternative form of peper

piper

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

piper m or f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

• pipur, pipor (old spelling or dialectal)
• pipo (dialectal)

piper f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.per/

piper m

1. alternative form of pipor

Borrowed from Bulgarian пипе́р (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).

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piper m (plural piperi)

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

• sare

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpɛr/

piper

1. present indicative of pipa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪd/

piper

1. (literary) inflection of pipo (“to peep”):
   1. impersonal subjunctive
   2. impersonal imperative

From Old Frisian piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar.

piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

1. pepper (spice)

• “piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011