Paprika is made of a pepper plant, dried and ground to a powder.
I grew paprika peppers once. I may have dried them, but did not grind them.
Anyway, pepper plants are from the new world. I.e., they are American. They are related to tomatoes and potatoes. The way some of these new world foods have been accepted in the rest of the world, I wonder what people ate before Columbus made his voyage.
But paprika is the ONLY good thing to come out of the damned Muslim invasion of Hungary and no matter where it originated, nor who brought it TO Hungary, it IS still a HUNGARIAN thing! :-)