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

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..

we call it peepal (as in peepal ka ped)

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

I believe cubeb in Hindi is often conflated with long pepper