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Etymology
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From French caféine,[1] from café (“coffee”), or German Caffein, Kaffein[2] (cp. Coffein, Koffein), from Kaffee (“coffee”) (cp. Kaffe, Koffee, Koffe), or Italian caffè (“coffee”) + -ine.
Pronunciation
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caffeine (usually uncountable, plural caffeines)
- An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]
- Coordinate terms: guaranine, mateine, theine
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Translations
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alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants
- Albanian: kafeinë (sq) f
- Arabic: كَافِيِين m (kāfiyīn)
- Armenian: կոֆեին (hy) (kofein)
- Asturian: cafeína f
- Azerbaijani: kofein
- Belarusian: кафеі́н m (kafjeín)
- Bengali: ক্যাফিন (kêphin)
- Bulgarian: кофеи́н m (kofeín)
- Burmese: ကေဖိန်း (kehpin:)
- Catalan: cafeïna (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 咖啡因 (gaa3 fe1 jan1)
- Hakka: 咖啡因 (kha-fei-yin, kà-pì-yîn)
- Hokkien: 咖啡因 (ka-pi-in)
- Mandarin: 咖啡因 (zh) (kāfēiyīn), 咖啡鹼/咖啡碱 (zh) (kāfēijiǎn)
- Czech: kofein (cs) m
- Danish: koffein n or c
- Dutch: cafeïne (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: kafeino
- Estonian: kofeiin
- Finnish: kofeiini (fi)
- French: caféine (fr) f
- Galician: cafeína (gl) f
- Georgian: კოფეინი (ḳopeini)
- German: Koffein (de) n, Coffein (de) n
- Greek: καφεΐνη (el) f (kafeḯni)
- Hebrew: קָפֶאִין (he) m (kafeín)
- Hindi: कैफ़ीन f (kaifīn), कैफीन f (kaiphīn)
- Hungarian: koffein (hu)
- Icelandic: koffín (is) n, kaffín (is) n (dated)
- Ido: kafeino (io)
- Indonesian: kafein
- Irish: caiféin f
- Italian: caffeina (it) f
- Japanese: カフェイン (kafein)
- Kazakh: кофеин (kofein)
- Khmer: កាហ្វេអ៊ីន (kahvé'in)
- Korean: 카페인 (ko) (kapein)
- Kyrgyz: кофеин (kofein)
- Lao: ກາເຟອີນ (kā fē ʼīn), ຄາເຟອີນ (khā fē ʼīn)
- Latin: coffēinum n
- Latvian: kofeīns m
- Lithuanian: kofeinas m
- Macedonian: кофеи́н m (kofeín)
- Malagasy: kafeinina, kafeina (mg)
- Malay: kafein
- Manx: caffeen f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: кофеин (kofein)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: koffein (no) m or n
- Nynorsk: koffein m or n
- Persian: کافئین (fa) (kâfe'in)
- Polish: kofeina (pl) f
- Portuguese: cafeína (pt) f
- Romanian: cafeină (ro) f, cofeină (ro) f
- Russian: кофеи́н (ru) m (kofeín)
- Scottish Gaelic: caifein m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кофѐӣн m
- Roman: kofèīn (sh) m
- Slovak: kofeín (sk) m
- Slovene: kofein (sl) m
- Spanish: cafeína (es) f
- Swedish: koffein (sv) n
- Tajik: кофеин (kofeyin)
- Thai: กาเฟอีน (th) (gaa-fee-iin), คาเฟอีน (kaa-fee-iin)
- Turkish: kafein (tr)
- Turkmen: kafein, kafeyin
- Ukrainian: кофеї́н m (kofejín)
- Urdu: کیفین (kaifīn)
- Uyghur: كوففېئىن (koffë'in)
- Uzbek: kofein (uz)
- Vietnamese: cafêin, cà phê tinh, caffein
- Volapük: kafein
- Welsh: caffîn (cy) m
- Yiddish: קאַפֿעיִן m (kafein)
- Yoruba: kaféènì
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