beverage

See also: Beverage

English

Alternative forms

• beveridge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbevəɹɪdʒ/, /ˈbevɹɪdʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

A selection of beverages at a buffet in Bratislava, Slovakia

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
   • 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 54163524, stanza VII, page 44:

     He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]

2. (Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.

Usage notes

More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.

Synonyms

• drink

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:beverage

Derived terms

• bevvy
• bev

Related terms

• bever

Translations

drink

• Afrikaans: drankie
• Albanian: pije (sq) f, dhallë (sq) f
• Amharic: መጠጥ (mäṭäṭ)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: hidląąhí

• Arabic: شَرَاب‎ m (šarāb)
• Armenian: խմիչք (hy) (xmičʿkʿ), ըմպելիք (hy) (əmpelikʿ)
• Azerbaijani: içki (az), məşrubat, içiləcək
• Bashkir: эсемлек (esemlek)
• Basque: edari (eu)
• Belarusian: напо́й m (napój)
• Breton: boeson (br) m, evaj (br) m
• Bulgarian: напи́тка (bg) f (napítka), питие́ (bg) n (pitié)
• Burmese: ယမကာ (my) (ya.ma.ka)
• Catalan: beguda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飲品, 饮品 (jam² ban²), 飲料, 饮料 (jam² liu^6-2), 嘢飲, 嘢饮 (je⁵ jam²) (informal)

  Mandarin: 飲料 (zh), 饮料 (zh) (yǐnliào), 飲品 (zh), 饮品 (zh) (yǐnpǐn)

• Czech: nápoj (cs) m
• Danish: drik (da)
• Dutch: drankje (nl) n, drank (nl)
• Esperanto: trinkaĵo
• Estonian: jook (et)
• Finnish: juoma (fi)
• French: boisson (fr) f, breuvage (fr) m
• Galician: bebida (gl) f, beberaxe f
• Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
• German: Getränk (de) n
• Greek: ποτό (el) n (potó)
• Hebrew: משקה‎ (he) m (mashqe)
• Hungarian: ital (hu)
• Icelandic: drykkur (is) m
• Ido: drinkajo (io)
• Indonesian: minuman (id)
• Interlingua: bibita
• Italian: bevanda (it)
• Japanese: 飲料 (ja) (いんりょう, inryō), ドリンク (ja) (dorinku)
• Kazakh: сусын (kk) (swsın), ішімдік (kk) (işimdik)
• Khmer: គ្រឿងផឹក (krɨəŋ pʰək), ភេសជ្ជ (km) (pʰeisaccea’)
• Korean: 음료 (ko) (eumnyo), 마실 것 (masil geot)
• Kyrgyz: суусундук (ky) (suusunduk)

• Lao: ເຄື່ອງດື່ມ (lo) (khư̄ang dư̄m)
• Latin: pōtus m
• Latvian: dzēriens m
• Lithuanian: gėrimas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦍᦲᧃᦜᦶᧁᧈ (yiinl̇aew¹)
• Macedonian: пи́јалок m (píjalok)
• Malay: minuman (ms)
• Maori: inu, inuinu
• Mongolian: ундаа (mn) (undaa)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: drikk (no) m

• Occitan: beguda (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: пиво n (pivo)
• Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (meşrubat)
• Persian: نوشابه‎ (fa) (nušâbe), نوشیدنی‎ (fa) (nušidani)
• Polish: napój (pl) m
• Portuguese: bebida (pt) f
• Romanian: băutură (ro) f
• Russian: напи́ток (ru) m (napítok), питьё (ru) n (pitʹjó) (generic for "drinks"), по́йло (ru) n (pójlo) (same, slang)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: напитак m, пиће n

  Roman: napitak (sh), piće (sh) n

• Slovak: nápoj (sk) m
• Slovene: pijača (sl) f
• Spanish: bebida (es) f, trago (es) m
• Swahili: kinywaji (sw)
• Swedish: dryck (sv) c
• Tajik: нӯш (nüš), нӯшоки (nüšoki), машрубот (tg) (mašrubot)
• Tatar: эчемлек (tt) (eçemlek)
• Thai: เครื่องดื่ม (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-dʉ̀ʉm)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: içecek (tr), meşrubat (tr)
• Turkmen: içgi
• Ukrainian: напі́й m (napíj), напи́ток m (napýtok)
• Uzbek: ichimlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: nước giải khát (vi)
• Welsh: diod (cy) f
• Yiddish: געטראַנק‎ n (getrank)

References

• Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• beverage at OneLook Dictionary Search
• beverage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• beverich, beverege, bevereche, beveriche, beveredg, berage, berrage, berygge

Etymology

From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever +‎ -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛvərˈaːdʒ(ə)/, /ˈbɛvəradʒ(ə)/, /ˈbɛvərɛdʒ(ə)/, /ˈbɛvəritʃ(ə)/

Noun

beverage (plural beverages)

1. An (alcoholic) beverage or beverages.
2. Such a beverage used to close negotiations; said negotiations in themselves.
3. Hardship, pain, torment; events that are hard to handle.

Descendants

• English: beverage
• Scots: beverage, baiverage

References

• “beverāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.

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Old French

Noun

beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. Alternative form of bevrage