café

See also cafe, and Café

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• cafe
• cafe'
• caffè
• caffé

Etymology

Borrowing from French café (“coffee”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /kæfˈeɪ/
• (UK)IPA: /ˈkæfeɪ/
• Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

café (plural cafés)

1. 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.
2. A French pub.

Synonyms

• (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
• (French pub): see Wikisaurus:pub

See also

• bar
• bistro
• cafeteria
• restaurant

Translations

coffee shop

• Arabic: مَقْهًى (ar) (máqhan) m, مقهاة (ar) (maqhāa) f
• Armenian: սրճարան (hy) (srč̣aran), կաֆե (hy) (kafe)
• Belarusian: кавярня (be) (kavjárnja) f, кафэ (be) (kafé) n
• Bulgarian: кафене (bg) (kafene) n, кафе (bg) (kafé) n
• Burmese: ကဖီး (my) (ka̱hpi:)
• Catalan: cafè (ca) m, cafeteria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咖啡屋 (cmn) (kāfēiwū), 咖啡店 (cmn) (kāfēidiàn), 咖啡館 (cmn), 咖啡馆 (cmn) (kāfēiguǎn)

• Czech: kavárna (cs) f
• Danish: café (da) n
• Dutch: café (nl) n
• Esperanto: kafejo (eo)
• Finnish: kahvila (fi)
• French: café (fr) m
• Georgian: კაფე (ka) (kap’e)
• German: Café (de) n
• Greek: καφενείο (el) (kafenío) n
• Hebrew: בית־קפה (he) (beit-qafe) m
• Hindi: होटल (hi) (hoṭal) m, कैफ़े (hi) (kaife)
• Hungarian: kávéház (hu)
• Icelandic: kaffihús (is) n
• Italian: caffè (it) m, caffetteria (it) f, bar (it) m
• Japanese: カフェ (ja) (kafe), コーヒー店 (ja) (kōhī-ten), コーヒーハウス (ja) (kōhī-hausu), 喫茶店 (ja) (きっさてん, kissaten)
• Korean: 카페 (ko) (kape)

• Lao: ກາເຟ (lo) (kaa-fee)
• Latvian: kafejnīca (lv) f
• Lithuanian: kavìnė (lt) f
• Macedonian: кафуле (mk) (káfule) n (coffee house), кафана (mk) (kafána) f (restaurant)
• Norwegian: kafé (no) m, café (no) m
• Persian: کافه (fa) (kâfe), قهوه‌خانه (fa) (qahve-xâne)
• Polish: kawiarnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: café (pt) m
• Romanian: cafenea (ro) f
• Russian: кафе (ru) (kafɛ́) n (indeclinable), кофейня (ru) (koféjnja) f, кафетерий (ru) (kafɛtɛ́rij) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кафана (sh) f, кавана (sh) f, кафић (sh) m

  Roman: kafana (sh) f, kavana (sh) f, kafić (sh) m

• Slovak: kaviareň (sk) f
• Slovene: kavarna (sl) f
• Spanish: café (es) m, (Spain) cafetería (es) f
• Swedish: kafé (sv) n, café (sv) n
• Thai: คาเฟ่ (th) (kaa-fây)
• Tongan: fale kai (to)
• Turkish: kahvehane (tr), kahve (tr)
• Ukrainian: кав'ярня (uk) (kav'járnja) f, кафе (uk) (kafé) n
• Urdu: ہوٹل (ur) (hoṭal) m, کیفے (ur) (kaife)
• Vietnamese: tiệm cà phê (vi)
• Volapük: kafibötöp (vo)

French pub

Anagrams

• face

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Asturian

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. café, coffee shop

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje)

1. café

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ka.fe/, X-SAMPA: /ka.fe/

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• Standard French (West France)

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee (drink, flavour)
2. coffee colour
3. public house
4. café, coffee shop

Derived terms

café-bar café-concert caféiculteur caféiculture caféier caféière caféine caféique caféisme caféone cafèt’

cafétéria caféterie café-théatre cafetier cafetière déca décaféination décaféiné décaféiner pause-café pousse-café

See also

bistouille café au lait café chocolaté café crème café filtre

café liégeois café turc capuccino expresso

Adjective

café (masculine and feminine, plural cafés)

1. Of the colour of coffee.

Anagrams

• face

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Galician

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. coffee bean
3. coffee plant
4. cafeteria

Synonyms

• (coffee plant): cafeeira

Related terms

• cafeeira

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From French café.

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee (beverage)

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈfɛ/
• (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈfɛ/

Etymology

Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Classical Arabic قهوة (qáhwah, coffee).

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee

Derived terms

• cafeteria
• café da manhã
• cafezal

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Arabic قهوة (qahwah, coffee).

Pronunciation

• Audio (BOL)

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Adjective

café m and f (plural cafés)

1. brown

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. café, coffee-shop

Derived terms

• (diminutives): cafecito, cafelito
• (augmentatives): cafetón
• cafetería
• cafetero
• cafetera
• cafetal

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaˈfeː/

• Audio

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Noun

café n

1. café; coffee shop

Declension

Declension of café

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	café	caféet	caféer	caféerna
genitive	cafés	caféets	caféers	caféernas

Derived terms

Definite form singular could also be cafét/caféts.

Synonyms

• cafeteria/kafeteria
• fik
• kafé
• kaffestuga
• konditori