Where does “Urfa biber” come from?
Urfa biber (Turkish) comes from Turkish biber, from Ottoman Turkish ببر, from Greek πιπέρι, from Ancient Greek πέπερι, from Sanskrit पिप्पलि, from Sanskrit पिप्पल — berry; the sacred fig, "Ficus religiosa"; a kind...
Ancestry of “Urfa biber”, step by step
Urfa biber traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.