กาแฟ

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from French café, borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Cognate with Lao ກາເຟ (kā fē).

Pronunciation

Orthographic		กาแฟ k ā æ v
Phonemic		กา-แฟ k ā – æ v
Romanization	Paiboon	gaa-fɛɛ
	Royal Institute	ka-fae
(standard) IPA(key)		/kaː˧.fɛː˧/(R)

Noun

กาแฟ • (gaa-fɛɛ)

1. coffee (beverage, tree, bean, or color).

Derived terms

• กาแฟผง
• กาแฟเย็น (gaa-fɛɛ-yen)
• กาแฟร้อน
• กาแฟใส่นม
• ร้านกาแฟ (ráan-gaa-fɛɛ)
• สภากาแฟ
• หลอดกาแฟ

Further reading

• “กาแฟ” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.