carafe

English

A carafe (bottle with flared lip)

Etymology

First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹæf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

carafe (plural carafes)

1. A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
   • 1870, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Run to Earth, page 215:

     Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.

2. A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
   • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 177:

     Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.

Translations

bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages

• Albanian: brokë (sq) f
• Arabic: غَرَّافَة f (ḡarrāfa)
• Armenian: ջրաման (hy) (ǰraman)
• Azerbaijani: qrafin
• Belarusian: графі́н m (hrafín)
• Bulgarian: гара́фа f (garáfa)
• Catalan: marraixa (ca) f, garrafa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃水瓶 (bōlí shuǐpíng)

• Czech: karafa (cs) f
• Danish: karaffel (da) c
• Dutch: karaf (nl) f
• Esperanto: karafo
• Estonian: karahvin
• Finnish: karahvi (fi), kannu (fi)
• French: carafe (fr) f, carafon (fr) m
• Galician: xerra f
• German: Karaffe (de) f, Wasserflasche (de) f
• Greek: καράφα (el) f (karáfa)
• Hungarian: kancsó (hu), üvegkancsó (hu), karaf
• Icelandic: karafla (is)
• Italian: caraffa (it) f
• Japanese: カラフ (karafu), 水差し (ja) (みずさし, mizusashi)
• Kazakh: графин (grafin)
• Kyrgyz: графин (ky) (grafin)
• Latvian: karafe (lv)
• Luxembourgish: Karaff f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karaffel (no) m

  Nynorsk: karaffel m

• Persian: تنگ (fa) (tong), قرابه (fa) (qarâbe), صراحی (fa) (sorâhi)
• Polish: karafka (pl) f
• Portuguese: jarro (pt) m
• Romanian: carafă (ro) f
• Russian: графи́н (ru) m (grafín)
• Spanish: jarra (es) f
• Swedish: (1) karaff (sv) c, (2) kanna (sv) c
• Turkish: sürahi (tr)
• Ukrainian: кара́фа f (karáfa), графи́н m (hrafýn)
• Uzbek: grafin (uz)
• Volapük: karaf
• Welsh: caráff m

glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for coffee

• Hungarian: kávékiöntő

Anagrams

• Farace

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁaf/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -af

Noun

carafe f (plural carafes)

1. carafe

   Synonyms: cruche, broc, pichet, pot à eau

Derived terms

• en carafe

Further reading

• “carafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.