paprikas
- 1Plural of paprika.
The market stall displayed smoked paprikas from several growing regions.
Hungarian cooks prize their local paprikas above any imported blend.
Note
A plural only the countable uses of the spice can take. Ground paprika is ordinarily a mass noun, so paprikas means kinds or grades of it, such as smoked blends or those made from sweet or chili peppers. Rarely, it means the whole dried pods sold before grinding. The same spelling also names the Hungarian stew, so a plural verb or a count is the surest sign that spices are meant.
- 2SayPAP-ri-kashUS/ˈpæpɹɪˌkæʃ/UK/ˈpæpɹɪkæʃ/Alternative form of paprikash.
The recipe for veal paprikas called for a full spoonful of sour cream at the end.
Grandmother served the paprikas over wide egg noodles.
Note
The dish, spelled here without the final h of paprikash. It is a mass noun and takes a singular verb (the paprikas was rich). It usually follows its meat, as in chicken paprikas or veal paprikas. It is close kin to goulash, but meat takes the place of the potatoes, most often chicken and sometimes veal. A singular verb keeps it apart from the plural of the spice.
paprikas is a form of paprika
paprika, noun: A powdered spice made by drying and grinding sweet or chili peppers, used especially in Hungarian cooking. Full entry
- Forms
- paprikapaprikas plural
- Spelling
- paprika → paprikas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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