café
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.
PronunciationEdit
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæfeɪ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophone: CAFE
- Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ
NounEdit
café (plural cafés)
- A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
- (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
- 1982, Joni Mitchell, Chinese Café / Unchained Melody (song)
SynonymsEdit
- (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
Coordinate termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Valencian) (file)
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)
- café; coffee shop
- Synonym: koffiehuis
- pub, bar
- snackbar
- Synonym: eetcafé
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé[1], from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ka.fe/
Standard French (file) Belgium (file) Central France (file) West France (file) Quebec (file)
NounEdit
café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)
- coffee (drink)
- Synonyms: caoua, noir, petit noir
- Hypernym: boisson
- Hyponyms: bistouille, café arrosé, café au lait, café-calva, café-chicorée, café chocolaté, café crème, café filtre, café frappé, café-lambig, café turc, cappuccino, décaféiné, expresso, macchiato, ristretto
- coffee colour
- public house
- cafe, coffee shop
Derived termsEdit
- café allongé
- café arrosé
- café au lait
- café chocolaté
- café complet
- café crème
- café du commerce
- café filtre
- café frappé
- café glacé
- café instantané
- café liégeois
- café noir
- café soluble
- café turc
- café-bar
- café-calva
- café-chicorée
- café-concert
- café-lambig
- café-théatre
- caféiculteur
- caféiculture
- caféier
- caféière
- caféine
- caféique
- caféisme
- caféone
- caféterie
- cafetier
- cafetière
- cuiller à café
- cuillère à café
- fort de café
- garçon de café
- machine à café
- marc de café
- moulin à café
- pause-café
- pousse-café
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: kafeja
- → Alemannic German: Kaafe
- → Arabic: كَافِيه (kāfē)
- Gulf Arabic: كافيه (kāfē)
- → Asturian: café
- → Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa3 fe1)
- Taishanese: 咖啡 (ga1 fie2)
- → Coeur d'Alene: lkaapi
- → Crimean Tatar: kafe
- → Danish: café
- → English: café
- → German: Café (“café”)
- → German: Kaffee (“coffee”)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kaffe
- → Dutch: café
- → Hebrew: קָפֶה (kafé)
- → Kumak: kafe
- → Luxembourgish: Café
- → Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)
- → Norman: café
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi
- → Nzadi: kafɛ
- → Ojibwe: aapii
- → Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Portuguese: café, cafè
- Kadiwéu: gaape
- → Serbo-Croatian: kafić
- → Spanish: café
- → Swedish: café
- → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
- → West Uvean: kafe
- → Vietnamese: cà phê
AdjectiveEdit
café (plural cafés)
- of the colour of coffee
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further readingEdit
- “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- O día estaba frío, i dempois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría mal unha cunca de café.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- coffee bean
- coffee plant
- cafeteria
SynonymsEdit
- (coffee plant): cafeeira
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “café” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
Related termsEdit
- caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- cafè (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises
- Ellipsis of café da manhã.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Kadiwéu: gaape
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
café (plural café or cafés)
NounEdit
café m (plural cafés)
Derived termsEdit
- (augmentatives) cafetón
- café con leche
- café con piernas
- café concierto
- café de civeta
- café helado
- café irlandés
- café para todos
- café solo
- cafeína
- cafelito
- cafetal
- cafetera
- cafetería
- cafetero
- cafeto
- descafeinado
- (diminutives) cafecito, cafelito
- máquina de café (“coffee machine, coffee maker”)
- molinillo de café
- molino de café
DescendantsEdit
- → Cebuano: kape
- → Central Tarahumara: kajé
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
- → Hiligaynon: kape
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
- → Navajo: ahwééh
- → Tagalog: kapé
- → Min Nan: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
- → Waray-Waray: kape
Further readingEdit
- “café”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
café n
- cafe, coffee shop
DeclensionEdit
Declension of café | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | café | caféet | caféer | caféerna |
Genitive | cafés | caféets | caféers | caféernas |