café

See also: cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café

English

Alternative forms

• cafe
• caffè (Italianate), caffe (Italianate), caffé (Italianate, nonstandard)
• caff (UK, informal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
• 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.
3. (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

• bar
• bistro
• cafeteria
• restaurant

Derived terms

• café society
• cybercafé
• dementia café
• memory café

 

Translations

coffee shop

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

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

  Hejazi Arabic: قهوة f (gahwa), مقهى m (magha), كافيه m (kafē)

  Moroccan Arabic: قهوة f (qahwa)

• Armenian: սրճարան (hy) (srčaran), կաֆե (hy) (kafe)
• Asturian: cafetería f, café (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qəhvəxana, kafe (az)
• Belarusian: кавя́рня (be) f (kavjárnja), кафэ́ n (kafé)
• Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel), ক্যাফে (kêphe)
• Bulgarian: кафене́ n (kafené), кафе́ n (kafé)
• Burmese: ကဖီး (my) (ka.hpi:), လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (lakhpak-ranyhcuing) (tea house)
• Catalan: cafè (ca) m, cafeteria f
• Chinese:

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

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

• Cornish: koffiji m
• Czech: kavárna (cs) f
• Danish: café (da) c, cafe (da) c
• Dutch: café (nl) n, koffiehuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: kafejo
• Estonian: kohvik (et)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kahvila (fi)
• French: café (fr) m
• Galician: cafetaría (gl) f, cafetería (gl) f, café (gl) m, bar (gl) m
• Georgian: კაფე (ḳape), ყავახანა (ka) (q̇avaxana)
• German: Café (de) n, Kaffeehaus (de) n
• Greek: καφενείο (el) n (kafeneío), καφετέρια (el) f (kafetéria)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: בֵּית קָפֶה (he) m (beit kafé)
• Hindi: होटल (hi) m (hoṭal), कैफ़े m (kaife), कैफे m (kaiphe), कॉफ़ीख़ाना m (kŏfīxānā)
• Hungarian: kávéház (hu), kávézó (hu), presszó (hu), eszpresszó (hu)
• Icelandic: kaffihús (is) n
• Ido: kafeerio (io)
• Indonesian: warung kopi, kafe (id)
• Irish: caifé m
• 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), кафе (kk) (kafe)
• Khmer: ហាងកាហ្វេ (haang kaafee)
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• 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 (cajny gazar)

  Uyghurjin: ᠻᠠᠹᠧ (kafē)

• Navajo: daʼjiyání
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kafé (no) m, café (no) m
• Pashto: هوټل (ps) (hoṭál), خوړنځی (ps) (xwaṛǝnjáy), قهوه خونه f (qahwa xúna)
• 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: кафа̀на f, кава̀на f, ка̀фӣћ m

  Roman: kafàna (sh) f, kavàna (sh) f, kàfīć (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ආපනශාලාව (āpanaśālāwa)
• Slovak: kaviareň (sk) f
• Slovene: kavarna (sl) f
• Spanish: café (es) m, cafetería (es) f (Spain), cafetín
• Swahili: mkahawa (sw)
• Swedish: kafé (sv) n, café (sv) n
• Tagalog: kapihan
• Tajik: қаҳвахона (qahvaxona), кафе (tg) (kafe)
• Tamil: அருந்தகம் (ta) (aruntakam)
• Thai: กาแฟ (th) (gaa-fɛɛ), ร้านกาแฟ (ráan-gaa-fɛɛ), คาเฟ่ (kaa-fêe)
• Tongan: fale kai
• Turkish: kahvehane (tr), kahve (tr)
• Turkmen: kebaphana, kofehana, kafe
• Ukrainian: кав'я́рня (uk) f (kavʺjárnja), кафе́ n (kafé)
• Urdu: ہوٹل m (hoṭal), کیفے m (kaife), کفیخانا m (kofīxānā)
• Uyghur: قەھۋەخانا (qehwexana)
• 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) m (kafe)

French pub

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Anagrams

• face

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a cafe, coffee shop

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

Noun

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

1. café

Declension

Declension of café

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	café	caféen	caféer	caféerne
genitive	cafés	caféens	caféers	caféernes

Derived terms

• fortovscafé

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

1. café; coffee shop

   Synonym: koffiehuis

2. pub, bar

   Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé

3. snackbar

   Synonym: eetcafé

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

• Standard French

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• Quebec

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Noun

café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)

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

Derived terms

• bistouille
• café au lait
• café chocolaté
• café crème
• café filtre
• café liégeois
• café turc
• café-bar
• café-concert
• café-théatre
• caféiculteur
• caféiculture
• caféier
• caféière
• caféine
• caféique
• caféisme
• caféone
• cafétéria
• caféterie
• cafetier
• cafetière
• cafèt’
• capuccino
• déca
• décaféination
• décaféiné
• décaféiner
• expresso
• pause-café
• pousse-café

 

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
  • → Cebuano: kape
  • → Central Tarahumara: kajé
  • → Tagalog: kapé
    • → Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
  • → Hiligaynon: kape
  • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
  • → Navajo: ahwééh
  • → Waray-Waray: kape
• → Swedish: café
• → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)

Adjective

café (plural cafés)

1. Of the colour of coffee.

Further reading

• “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• face

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Galician

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

Borrowed from French café.

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. (Jersey) coffee (beverage)
2. (Jersey) café (establishment)

Related terms

• caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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
3. Short for café da manhã.

Derived terms

• cafeteria
• cafeteira
• café da manhã
• cafezal

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: gaape

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Spanish

café

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]

• Audio (BOL)

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Adjective

café m or f (masculine and feminine plural cafés)

1. brown

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. cafe, coffee shop

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

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfeː/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n

1. cafe, coffee shop

Declension

Declension of café
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	café	caféet	caféer	caféerna
Genitive	cafés	caféets	caféers	caféernas

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.