café

See also: cafe and Café

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• cafe (used when é is unavailable or not desired)
• caffè (Italianate), caffe (Italianate), caffé (Italianate, nonstandard)
• caff (UK, informal)

Etymology

Borrowing from French café ‎(“coffee; coffee shop”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæfeɪ/
• Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

café ‎(plural cafés)

1. A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
2. A French pub.

Synonyms

• (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
• (French pub): see Wikisaurus:pub

Coordinate terms

• bar
• bistro
• cafeteria
• restaurant

Derived terms

• café society

Translations

coffee shop

• Afrikaans: kafee, koffiehuis
• Albanian: kafene (sq) f
• Arabic: مَقْهًى m ‎(maqhan), مَقْهَاة f ‎(maqhāh)

  Egyptian Arabic: قهوة f ‎(ʾahwa), كافيه m ‎(kafé)

• Armenian: սրճարան ‎(srčaran), կաֆե ‎(kafe)
• Asturian: cafetería f, café (ast) m
• Azeri: qəhvəxana
• Belarusian: кавя́рня (be) f ‎(kavjárnja), кафэ́ n ‎(kafé)
• Bulgarian: кафене́ n ‎(kafené), кафе́ n ‎(kafé)
• Burmese: ကဖီး (my) ‎(ka.hpi:)
• Catalan: cafè (ca) m, cafeteria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咖啡屋 (zh) ‎(kāfēiwū), 咖啡店 (zh) ‎(kāfēidiàn), 咖啡館 (zh), 咖啡馆 (zh) ‎(kāfēiguǎn)

  Min Nan: 咖啡廳 ‎(ka-pi-thiaⁿ), 咖啡館 ‎(ka-pi-koán)

• Cornish: koffiji m
• Czech: kavárna (cs) f
• Danish: café (da) n, cafe (da) n
• Dutch: café (nl) n, koffiehuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: kafejo
• Estonian: kohvik (et)
• Finnish: kahvila (fi)
• French: café (fr) m
• Galician: cafetaría (gl) f, cafetería (gl) f, café (gl) m, bar (gl) m
• Georgian: კაფე ‎(ḳape)
• German: Café (de) n, Kaffeehaus (de) n
• Greek: καφενείο (el) n ‎(kafeneío), καφετέρια (el) f ‎(kafetéria)
• Hebrew: בֵּית קָפֶה (he) m ‎(beit kafé)
• Hindi: होटल m ‎(hoṭal), कैफ़े m ‎(kaife), कैफे m ‎(kaiphe), कॉफ़ीख़ाना m ‎(kŏfīxānā)
• Hungarian: kávéház (hu)
• Icelandic: kaffihús (is) n
• Ido: kafeerio (io)
• Indonesian: warung kopi, kafe (id)
• Irish: caifé
• Italian: caffè (it) m, caffetteria (it) f, bar (it) m
• Japanese: カフェ (ja) ‎(kafe), コーヒー店 ‎(kōhī-ten), コーヒーハウス ‎(kōhī-hausu), 喫茶店 (ja) ‎(きっさてん, kissaten), コーヒーショップ ‎(kōhīshoppu)
• Kazakh: кофехана ‎(kofexana)

• Khmer: ហាងកាហ្វេ ‎(haaŋ kaafee)
• Korean: 카페 (ko) ‎(kape), 커피숍 ‎(keopisyop), 커피점 ‎(keopijeom)
• Kyrgyz: кафе (ky) ‎(kafe)
• Lao: ກາເຟ (lo) ‎(kā fē), ຮ້ານຄາເຟ ‎(hān khā fē)
• Latvian: kafejnīca f
• Lithuanian: kavìnė f
• Macedonian: ка́фуле n ‎(káfule) (coffee house), кафа́на f ‎(kafána) (restaurant)
• Malay: kedai kopi, kafe
• Mongolian: кафе (mn) ‎(kafe), цайны газар ‎(tsajny gazar)
• Norwegian: kafé (no) m, café (no) m
• Pashto: هوټل (ps) ‎(hoṭál), خوړنځی (ps) ‎(xwaṛǝnjáy)
• Persian: کافه (fa) ‎(kâfe), قهوه‌خانه ‎(qahve-xâne)
• Polish: kawiarnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: café (pt) m
• Romanian: cafenea (ro) f
• Russian: кафе́ (ru) n ‎(kafɛ́), кофе́йня (ru) f ‎(koféjnja), кафете́рий (ru) m ‎(kafɛtɛ́rij)
• Scottish Gaelic: cafaidh m, bùth-cofaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кафана f, кавана f, кафић m

  Roman: kafana (sh) f, kavana (sh) f, kafić (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ආපනශාලාව ‎(āpanaśālāva)
• Slovak: kaviareň (sk) f
• Slovene: kavarna (sl) f
• Spanish: café (es) m, (Spain) cafetería (es) f
• Swedish: kafé (sv) n, café (sv) n
• Tajik: қаҳвахона ‎(qahvaxona)
• Tamil: அருந்தகம் ‎(aruntakam)
• Thai: กาแฟ (th) ‎(gaafae), ร้านกาแฟ ‎(ráan gaafae), คาเฟ่ ‎(kaafây)
• Tongan: fale kai
• Turkish: kahvehane (tr), kahve (tr)
• Turkmen: kebaphana, kofehana
• Ukrainian: кав'я́рня (uk) f ‎(kavʺjárnja), кафе́ n ‎(kafé)
• Urdu: ہوٹل m ‎(hoṭal), کیفے m ‎(kaife), كفيخانا m ‎(kofīxānā)
• Uzbek: qahvaxona (uz), kafe (uz), kafeteriy
• Vietnamese: tiệm cà phê, quán cà phê
• Volapük: kafibötöp (vo)
• Welsh: caffi m, siop goffi f
• Yiddish: קאַפֿע (yi) n ‎(kafe)

French pub

Anagrams

• face

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Asturian

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Etymology

Borrowing from French café.

Noun

café m ‎(plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a cafe, coffee shop

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowing from French café.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n ‎(plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

1. a cafe

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French

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Etymology

Borrowing from Turkish kahve, from Arabic قَهْوَة ‎(qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• audio

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• IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

• Audio (Belgium)

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• Standard French (West France)

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Noun

café m ‎(plural cafés)

1. coffee (drink)
2. coffee colour
3. public house
4. cafe, coffee shop

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bistouille

• café au lait

• café-bar

• café chocolaté

• café-concert

• café crème

• café filtre

• caféiculteur

• caféiculture

• caféière

• caféier

• caféine

• caféique

• caféisme

• café liégeois

• caféone

• cafétéria

• caféterie

• cafèt’

• café-théatre

• cafetière

• cafetier

• café turc

• capuccino

• décaféination

• décaféiné

• décaféiner

• déca

• expresso
• pause-café

• pousse-café

Descendants

• German: Café

Adjective

café m, f ‎(plural cafés)

1. Of the colour of coffee.

Anagrams

• face

External links

• “café” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Wikipedia ^gl

Noun

café m ‎(plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. coffee bean
3. coffee plant
4. cafeteria

Synonyms

• (coffee plant): cafeeira

Related terms

• cafeeira

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from French café.

Noun

café m ‎(plural cafés)

1. (Jersey) coffee (beverage)

Related terms

• caf'tchiéthe ‎(“coffee pot”)

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈfɛ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈfɛ/, /kɐˈfɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة ‎(qahwa, “coffee”).

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises

Derived terms

• cafeteria
• cafeteira
• café da manhã
• cafezal

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: gaape

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

café

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Arabic قَهْوَة ‎(qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (BOL)

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Adjective

café m, f ‎(plural cafés)

1. brown

Noun

café m ‎(plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. cafe, coffee-shop

Derived terms

• (diminutives) cafecito, cafelito
• (augmentatives) cafetón
• cafetería
• cafetero
• cafetera
• cafetal

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowing from French café

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfeː/

• Audio

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Noun

café n

1. cafe, coffee shop

Declension

Declension of café

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	café	caféet	caféer	caféerna
genitive	cafés	caféets	caféers	caféernas

Derived terms

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

Synonyms

• cafeteria/kafeteria
• fik
• kafé
• kaffestuga
• konditori