kajé

See also: kaje

Central Tarahumara

Alternative forms

• cajé

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa).

Noun

kajé

1. coffee

Derived terms

• kajé rachilá

References

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎^[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18
• Hilton, K. Simón; Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 21