mocha

See also: mǒchá and Mocha

English

A caffè mocha (1).

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا‎ (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊkə/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊkə
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒkə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkə

Noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.

   Synonyms: caffè mocha, mochaccino

2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.

   mocha fudge

3. (color) A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

   mocha:  

4. A strong Arabian coffee.
5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
6. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Related terms

• mochaccino

Translations

coffee with chocolate

• Bulgarian: мока (moka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡 (zh) (mókǎ)

• Danish: mokka
• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
• Esperanto: kafo mokao
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• French: moka (fr) m
• German: Mokka (de) m
• Irish: moca m, caife mhoca
• Japanese: モカ (moka), カフェモカ (kafe moka)
• Korean: 모카 (moka)
• Maori: kawhe moka
• Polish: mokka f
• Portuguese: moca (pt) m
• Romanian: moca (ro) f
• Russian: мо́кко (ru) m (mókko)
• Spanish: moca (es) m
• Swedish: mocka (sv), mockakaffe
• Tagalog: moka

coffee/chocolate flavour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡味 (mókǎwèi)

• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• German: Mokka- (in compound words)
• Romanian: moca (ro)
• Swedish: mocka (sv)
• Tagalog: moka

colour

• Bulgarian: шоколадов (šokoladov)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡色 (mókǎsè)

• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
• Esperanto: mokakoloro
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• Swedish: mockafärgad, kaffefärgad (sv)

strong Arabian coffee

• Bulgarian: мока (moka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯咖啡 (Ālābó kāfēi)

• Dutch: mokka (nl) f, Arabische koffie m or f
• Esperanto: mokao
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• German: Mokka (de) m
• Italian: moca (it) m

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

Translations

of a brown colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡味的 (mókǎwèi de)

• Dutch: mokka (nl)
• Esperanto: mokakolora
• Finnish: kahvinruskea

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• caffè mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mocha coffee bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MACHO, macho

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmˠɔxə]

Adjective

mocha

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of moch (“early”)

Noun

mocha f (genitive singular mocha)

1. Alternative form of moiche (“earliness”)

Declension

Declension of mocha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative mocha Vocative a mhocha Genitive mocha Dative mocha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an mhocha Genitive na mocha Dative leis an mocha don mhocha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mocha	mhocha	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mocha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.xa/
• Rhymes: -ɔxa
• Syllabification: mo‧cha

Noun

mocha m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/ [ˈmo.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: mo‧cha

Adjective

mocha f sg

1. feminine singular of mocho

Verb

mocha

1. inflection of mochar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative