Coffee

Etymology
From caffè: <  kahve: <  قهوة:. Some Ethiopians claim a derivation from Kaffa, an ancient province of Ethiopia where coffee is said to have originated, but this etymology is highly improbable as it fails to explain the initial shift to the Arabic ‘qahwa’. At the same time, qahwa refers only to coffee in liquid form. When it is dry, either as beans or ground, Arabs call coffee بن:. That word comes from ቡና:, the Amharic word for coffee.

Many sources state that the Arabic term meant ‘a brew’, especially wine.

Noun

 * 1) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
 * 2) A serving of the beverage coffee
 * We’d like three coffees on this table please
 * 1) The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape.
 * 2) A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
 * 3)  A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
 * 4) The end of the meal—where coffee is usually served.
 * He did not stay for coffee.
 * He did not stay for coffee.

Synonyms

 * Thesaurus:coffee
 * Thesaurus:color

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: kafeja
 * Amharic:
 * Amuzgo: kajwê
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: কফি
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကော်ဖီ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee:
 * Cheyenne: moˀȯhtávėhohpe
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kaffi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , कॉफ़ी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: kafeo
 * Interlingua: caffe
 * Inuktitut:
 * Irish: caife
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: កាហ្វេ
 * Korean:
 * Kuna: kabi
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: coffeum
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian: Kava
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: കാപ്പി
 * Marathi: काफी
 * Nahuatl: cafentzin
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan: cafè
 * Ojibwe: makade-mashkikiwaaboo
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: kaphiy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кафа, кава, кахва
 * Roman: kafa, kava, kahva
 * Sinhalese: කෝපි
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tetum: kafé
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: kopi
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, ,
 * Uyghur: قەھوە
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kaf
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:


 * Arabic: (bun)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Danish: kaffebønne
 * Dutch:, koffieboon
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ყავის მარცვლები
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פולי קפה


 * Italian: chicco di caffè
 * Japanese:
 * Meru:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Taos: kopháne
 * Thai: (málét gaafâe)
 * Vietnamese: hột, hạt
 * Welsh: ffa coffi
 * Welsh: ffa coffi


 * Arabic: (bun)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kaffebusk, kaffetræ
 * Dutch:, koffieplant
 * Estonian: kohvipuu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Kaffeepflanze
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: コーヒーの木 (こーひーのき, kōhī no ki)
 * Kurdish: qehwe, qawe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: árvore de café
 * Russian: кофейное дерево
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: kavovec
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tok Pisin: kopi
 * Vietnamese: cây


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:, koffiebruin
 * Estonian: kohvipruun
 * Finnish: kahvinruskea
 * German: Kaffeebraun, Kaffeefarbe
 * Greek: καφέ
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: kaffibrúnn


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コーヒー色, 珈琲色 (kōhii iro)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Polish:, kawowa , kawowe
 * Russian: кофейный
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Vietnamese: màu cà phê
 * Volapük: kafabraun, kafaköl


 * : kafeenn (1), kafe  (beverage) (2), kafe  (beans of coffee) (2)
 * : காபி (kâpi)

Adjective

 * 1) Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.

Translations

 * Arabic: (bunni)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: cafè, marró
 * Dutch:, koffiebruin
 * Finnish: kahvinruskea
 * German: kaffeebraun, kaffeefarben, kaffeefarbig
 * Hebrew: קפה
 * Icelandic: kaffibrúnn, kaffibrún, kaffibrúnt
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: コーヒー色の, 珈琲色の (kōhii iro no)
 * Kurdish:
 * Persian: قهوه‌ای
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese: màu cà phê
 * Volapük: kafabraunik, kafakölik

Derived terms

 * black coffee
 * coffee-and
 * coffee bag
 * coffee bar
 * coffee bean
 * coffee break
 * coffee cake, coffeecake
 * coffee cup
 * coffee essense
 * coffee grinder
 * coffeehouse


 * coffee klatch, coffee klatsch
 * coffee machine
 * coffee maker, coffeemaker
 * coffee mill
 * coffee morning
 * coffee pot, coffeepot
 * coffee room
 * coffee royal
 * coffee shop
 * coffee spoon
 * coffee table


 * coffee-table book
 * coffee tree/coffeetree
 * drip coffee
 * filter coffee
 * Gaelic coffee
 * iced coffee
 * instant coffee
 * Irish coffee
 * Kentucky coffee tree
 * Turkish coffee