§Etymology[edit]
Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
§Pronunciation[edit]
beverage (plural beverages)
- (chiefly US) A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.
- Thomson
- He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.
- (slang, archaic) A treat, or drink money.
§Usage notes[edit]
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.
§Related terms[edit]
§Translations[edit]
a drink
- Afrikaans: drankie
- Albanian: pije f, dhallë f
- Amharic: መጠጥ (mäṭäṭ)
- Arabic: مَشْرُوب m (mašrūb)
- Armenian: խմիչք (xmičʿkʿ)
- Azeri: içki (az), məşrubat, içiləcək
- 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:
- Mandarin: 飲料 (zh), 饮料 (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
- Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
- German: Getränk (de), Drink 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 (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 (suusunduk)
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- Lao: ເຄື່ອງດື່ມ (lo) (khư̄ang dư̄m)
- Latvian: dzēriens m
- Lithuanian: gėrimas (lt) m
- Macedonian: пи́јалок m (píjalok)
- Malay: minuman
- Maori: inu, inuinu
- Mongolian: ундаа (undaa)
- Norwegian:
- drikk (no) m
- Old Church Slavonic: пиво n (pivo)
- Ottoman Turkish: meşrubat
- Persian: نوشابه (fa) (nušâbe), 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 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 (mašrubot)
- Tatar: эчемлек (tt) (eçemlek)
- Thai: เครื่องดื่ม (th) (krêuang-dèum)
- 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)
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§Old French[edit]
beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)
- alternative form of bevrage
