beverage

See also: Beverage

English

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbevəɹɪdʒ/

Noun

A selection of beverages at a buffet in Bratislava, Slovakia

beverage (plural beverages)

1. (chiefly US) A liquid to consume; a drink; such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks; sometimes excluding water.
   • Thomson

     He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.

2. (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 Wikisaurus:beverage

Related terms

• bever

Translations

a drink

• Afrikaans: drankie
• Albanian: pije (sq) f, dhallë (sq) f
• Amharic: መጠጥ (mäṭäṭ)
• Arabic: مَشْرُوب‏‎ m (mašrūb)
• Armenian: խմիչք (hy) (xmičʿkʿ)
• Azeri: içki (az), məşrubat, içiləcək
• Bashkir: эсемлек (esemlek)
• 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)
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 飲料 (zh), 饮料 (zh) (yǐnliào)

• 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
• Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
• German: Getränk (de), Drink (de) m
• 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)
• Latvian: dzēriens m
• Lithuanian: gėrimas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦍᦲᧃᦜᦶᧁᧈ (yiinl̇aew¹)
• Macedonian: пи́јалок m (píjalok)
• Malay: minuman
• Maori: inu, inuinu
• Mongolian: ундаа (mn) (undaa)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: drikk (no) m

• Old Church Slavonic: пиво n (pivo)
• Ottoman Turkish: meşrubat‏‎
• Persian: نوشابه‏‎ (fa) (nušâbe); (alcoholic:) مشروب‏‎ (fa) (mašrub)
• 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: на́пій m (nápij), напи́ток m (napýtok)
• Uzbek: ichimlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: nước giải khát
• Welsh: diod (cy) f
• Yiddish: געטראַנק‏‎ n (getrank)

See also

• Wikipedia article on drinks and beverages

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Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of bevrage