carafe

English

A carafe (bottle with flared lip)

Etymology

First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة‏ (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ‏ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹæf/

Noun

carafe (plural carafes)

1. A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
2. A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.

Translations

bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages

• Albanian: brokë (sq) f
• Arabic: غَرَّافَة‏‎ f (ḡarrāfa)
• Bulgarian: гара́фа f (garáfa)
• Catalan: marraixa f, garrafa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃水瓶 (bōlí shuǐpíng)

• Danish: karaffel (da) c
• Finnish: karahvi (fi), kannu (fi)
• French: carafe (fr) f, carafon (fr) m
• German: Karaffe (de) f, Wasserflasche (de) f
• Greek: καράφα (el) f (karáfa)
• Italian: caraffa f
• Japanese: カラフ (karafu), 水差し (みずさし, mizusashi)
• Latvian: karafe (lv)

• Luxembourgish: Karaff f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karaffel (no) m

  Nynorsk: karaffel m

• Persian: تنگ‏‎ (fa) (tong), قرابه‏‎ (fa) (qarâbe), صراحی‏‎ (fa) (sorâhi)
• Polish: karafka (pl) f
• Portuguese: jarro (pt) m
• Russian: графи́н (ru) m (grafín)
• Spanish: garrafa (es) f
• Swedish: (1) karaff (sv) c, (2) kanna (sv) c
• Turkish: sürahi (tr)
• Volapük: karaf
• Welsh: caráff m

glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for coffee

• Hungarian: kávékiöntő

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French

Etymology

From Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة‏ (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ‏ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”).

Noun

carafe f (plural carafes)

1. carafe

Further reading

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