caf

See also: caff and CAF

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăf, IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of café.

Noun

caf (plural cafs)

1. (colloquial) café
   • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:

     Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of cafeteria.

Noun

caf (plural cafs)

1. (colloquial) cafeteria
   • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:

     There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.

   • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:

     Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.

   • 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:

     One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.

Translations

colloquial term for "cafeteria"

• Finnish: kuppila (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

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Middle English

Noun

caf

1. Alternative form of chaf

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːf/

Adjective

cāf

1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
2. bold, brave

Declension

Declension of cāf — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cāf	cāf	cāf
Accusative	cāfne	cāfe	cāf
Genitive	cāfes	cāfre	cāfes
Dative	cāfum	cāfre	cāfum
Instrumental	cāfe	cāfre	cāfe
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cāfe	cāfa, cāfe	cāf
Accusative	cāfe	cāfa, cāfe	cāf
Genitive	cāfra	cāfra	cāfra
Dative	cāfum	cāfum	cāfum
Instrumental	cāfum	cāfum	cāfum

Declension of cāf — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cāfa	cāfe	cāfe
Accusative	cāfan	cāfan	cāfe
Genitive	cāfan	cāfan	cāfan
Dative	cāfan	cāfan	cāfan
Instrumental	cāfan	cāfan	cāfan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cāfan	cāfan	cāfan
Accusative	cāfan	cāfan	cāfan
Genitive	cāfra, cāfena	cāfra, cāfena	cāfra, cāfena
Dative	cāfum	cāfum	cāfum
Instrumental	cāfum	cāfum	cāfum

Descendants

• Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
  • Scots: caif, kaif

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃaf/

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. kettle

Declension

declension of caf

	singular	plural
nominative	caf	cafs
genitive	cafa	cafas
dative	cafe	cafes
accusative	cafi	cafis
vocative 1	o caf!	o cafs!
predicative 2	cafu	cafus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• ca (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • IPA^(key): /kaː/
• IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • IPA^(key): /kaː/

Verb

caf

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
caf	gaf	nghaf	chaf
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.