café
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ
Noun
café (plural cafés)
- 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.
- A French pub.
- (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
- 1982, Joni Mitchell, Chinese Café / Unchained Melody (song)
Synonyms
- (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
- (French pub): see Thesaurus:pub
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
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Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
Danish
Etymology
Noun
café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)
Declension
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)
- café; coffee shop
- Synonym: koffiehuis
- pub, bar
- snackbar
- Synonym: eetcafé
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé[1], from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.fe/
Standard French: (file) Belgium: (file) Central France: (file) West France: (file) Quebec: (file)
Noun
café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)
- coffee (drink)
- coffee colour
- public house
- cafe, coffee shop
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: kafeja
- → Arabic: كَافِيه (kāfē)
- → Gulf Arabic: كافيه (kāfē)
- → Alemannic German: Kaafe
- → Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa3 fe1)
- → Coeur d'Alene: lkaapi
- → English: café
- → German: Café
- → German: Kaffee
- → Hebrew: קָפֶה (kafé)
- → Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)
- → Zhuang: gahfeih
- → Mongolian: кафе (kafe)
- → Norman: café
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi
- → Ojibwe: gaapii
- → Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Portuguese: café
- Kadiwéu: gaape
- → Serbo-Croatian: kafić
- → Spanish: café
- → Swedish: café
- → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
Adjective
café (plural cafés)
- Of the colour of coffee.
References
Further reading
- “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- coffee bean
- coffee plant
- cafeteria
Synonyms
- (coffee plant): cafeeira
Related terms
Norman
Etymology
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
Related terms
- caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛ
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- 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
- Short for café da manhã.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Kadiwéu: gaape
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
café m or f (masculine and feminine plural cafés)
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
Derived terms
- (augmentatives) cafetón
- café con leche
- café helado
- café irlandés
- café para todos
- café solo
- cafeína
- cafetal
- cafetera
- cafetería
- cafetero
- cafeto
- descafeinado
- (diminutives) cafecito, cafelito
- máquina de café (“coffee machine, coffee maker”)
- molinillo de café
- molino de café
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kape
- → Central Tarahumara: kajé
- → Tagalog: kapé
- → Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
- → Hiligaynon: kape
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
- → Navajo: ahwééh
- → Waray-Waray: kape
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
café n
- cafe, coffee shop
Declension
Declension of café | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | café | caféet | caféer | caféerna |
Genitive | cafés | caféets | caféers | caféernas |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æfeɪ
- Rhymes:English/eɪ
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms spelled with É
- English terms spelled with ◌́
- Canadian English
- en:Coffee
- en:Restaurants
- Asturian terms borrowed from French
- Asturian terms derived from French
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian masculine nouns
- Danish terms borrowed from French
- Danish terms derived from French
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish terms spelled with É
- Danish terms spelled with C
- Danish terms spelled with ◌́
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
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- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eː
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch terms spelled with É
- Dutch terms spelled with ◌́
- Dutch neuter nouns
- French terms borrowed from Italian
- French terms derived from Italian
- French terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- French terms derived from Arabic
- French 2-syllable words
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French adjectives
- fr:Coffee
- fr:Colors
- fr:Restaurants
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Beverages
- Norman terms borrowed from French
- Norman terms derived from French
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Beverages
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛ
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese short forms
- pt:Coffee
- Spanish terms borrowed from Italian
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- Spanish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish basic words
- es:Coffee
- es:Colors
- Swedish terms borrowed from French
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- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Swedish/eː
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish terms spelled with É
- Swedish terms spelled with ◌́
- Swedish neuter nouns