beverage

English

Etymology

Borrowing 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, 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.

2. (slang, archaic) A treat, or 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:

  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) (krêuang-dèum)
• 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