arabica

See also: arábica

English

Coffea arabica

Etymology

See Wikipedia at Coffea arabica § Taxonomy and § History; Europeans learned of coffee from Arab peoples. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹæbɪkə/

Noun

arabica (usually uncountable, plural arabicas)

1. A species of coffee plant, Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia.
2. The bean of this plant.

   Coordinate term: robusta

   • 2015 May 1, “Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Arabica, which has long been prized for its delicate and aromatic flavour, accounts for 70% of the global coffee market share. But it is particularly sensitive to temperature increases, which reduce its growth, flowering and fruiting and make it more susceptible to coffee pests.

3. Coffee made from these coffee beans.

Coordinate terms

• robusta

Translations

Coffea arabica

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉比卡 (ālābǐkǎ)

• Finnish: arabiankahvi
• Portuguese: café-arábica m, arábica (pt) m

Further reading

• arabica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acarbia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁa.bi.ka/

• Audio

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Noun

arabica m (plural arabicas)

1. arabica (coffee)

Italian

Adjective

arabica f

1. feminine singular of arabico (“Arabian”)

Derived terms

• penisola arabica

Anagrams

• abarica

Latin

Pronunciation

• (arabica) (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.ka/, [äˈräbɪkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.ka/, [äˈräːbikä]
• (arabicā) (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.kaː/, [äˈräbɪkäː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.ka/, [äˈräːbikä]

Adjective

arabica

1. inflection of arabicus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

arabicā

1. ablative feminine singular of arabicus

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• arèbica

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arǎbit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧bi‧ca

Noun

aràbica f (Cyrillic spelling ара̀бица)

1. A form of the Perso-Arabic script once used to write Serbo-Croatian.

Declension

Declension of arabica

	singular	plural
nominative	arabica	arabice
genitive	arabice	arabica
dative	arabici	arabicama
accusative	arabicu	arabice
vocative	arabice	arabice
locative	arabici	arabicama
instrumental	arabicom	arabicama

Slovene

Noun

arabica f

1. Arebica, the form of the Perso-Arabic script once used to write Bosnian.

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	arábica
genitive	arábice
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	arábica
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	arábici
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	arábico