black coffee

English

A cup of black coffee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

black coffee (countable and uncountable, plural black coffees)

1. Coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.

   Synonym: café noir

   • 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, pages 305–306:

     It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.

   • 2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36:

     Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

Translations

coffee served without cream or milk

• Albanian: kafe e zezë f
• Arabic: قَهْوَة سَوْدَاء f (qahwa sawdāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قهوة سودا f (ʔáhwa sōda)

• Armenian: սև սուրճ (sew surč)
• Belarusian: чо́рная ка́ва f (čórnaja káva)
• Bulgarian: че́рно кафе́ n (čérno kafé)
• Catalan: cafè negre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 齋啡 / 斋啡 (zaai¹ fe¹)

  Mandarin: 黑咖啡 (zh) (hēikāfēi), 清咖啡 (zh) (qīngkāfēi)

• Czech: černá káva f
• Danish: sort kaffe c
• Dutch: zwarte koffie m
• Estonian: must kohv
• Finnish: musta kahvi (fi)
• French: café noir (fr) m
• Georgian: შავი ყავა (šavi q̇ava)
• German: schwarzer Kaffee (de) m, Mokka (de) m (Austria), Café Crème m (Switzerland)
• Greek: μαύρος καφές m (mávros kafés), σκέτος καφές m (skétos kafés)
• Hebrew: קפה שחור m (kafé shakhór)
• Hindi: काली कोफ़ी f (kālī kofī)
• Hungarian: feketekávé (hu)
• Indonesian: kopi pahit (id)
• Italian: caffè americano m
• Japanese: ブラックコーヒー (ja) (burakku kōhī), ブラック (ja) (burakku)
• Korean: 블랙 커피 (beullaek keopi)
• Latvian: melna kafija f
• Lithuanian: juoda kava f
• Macedonian: црно кафе n (crno kafe)
• Malay: kopi o
• Malayalam: കട്ടൻ കാപ്പി (kaṭṭaṉ kāppi)
• Navajo: gohwééh tʼáá díchʼíiʼgo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svart kaffe m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: قَهْوِهٔ سِیاه (ġahve-ye siyâh)

• Polish: kawa czarna f
• Portuguese: café puro m, café preto (pt) m
• Romanian: cafea neagră f
• Russian: чёрный ко́фе (ru) m (čórnyj kófe)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црна кафа f

  Latin: crna kava f

• Slovak: čierna káva f
• Slovene: črna kava (sl) f
• Spanish: café Express m (Chile), café negro m (Latin America), café solo m (Spain), negrito (es) m (Venezuela), tinto (es) m (Colombia)
• Swedish: svart kaffe n
• Tagalog: kapeng itim
• Tajik: қаҳваи сиёҳ (qahva-yi siyoh)
• Tamil: கடுங்காப்பி (kaṭuṅkāppi)
• Thai: กาแฟดำ (gaa-fɛɛ dam)
• Turkish: koyu kahve
• Ukrainian: чо́рна ка́ва f (čórna káva)
• Urdu: کالی کوفی f (kālī kofī)
• Uzbek: qora qahva
• Vietnamese: cà phê đen