instant coffee

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ĭʹnstənt kŏʹfē IPA^(key): /ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/

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Noun

Instant coffee

instant coffee (usually uncountable, plural instant coffees)

2. A beverage in the form of a powder, granules, or concentrated liquid, made from coffee and able to be quickly reconstituted by adding water.
   • 1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 221:

     She put a spoonful of instant coffee into the water still bubbling in the cup, stirred it and then she sipped it, flavorless and synthetic as the retreat she had tried to make out of the small apartment.

Translations

beverage

• Arabic: قَهْوَة فَوْرِيَّة f (qahwa fawriyya)
• Armenian: լուծվող սուրճ (lucvoġ surč)
• Azerbaijani: hazır qəhvə
• Basque: istanteko kafe
• Bulgarian: разтворимо кафе (raztvorimo kafe)
• Catalan: cafè instantani
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 即溶咖啡 (zik¹ jung⁴ gaa³ fe¹), 咖啡精 (gaa³ fe¹ zing¹)

  Mandarin: 速溶咖啡 (zh) (sùróng kāfēi), 即溶咖啡 (zh) (jíróng kāfēi), 咖啡精 (zh) (kāfēijīng)

• Czech: instantní káva
• Danish: instantkaffe c, pulverkaffe n
• Dutch: koffiepoeder (nl) m, oploskoffie (nl), instantkoffie (nl)
• Esperanto: tuja kafo
• Estonian: lahustuv kohv
• Finnish: pikakahvi (fi), murukahvi
• French: café instantané (fr) m, café soluble (fr) m
• Galician: café instantáneo (gl) m, café soluble (gl) m
• Georgian: ხსნადი ყავა (xsnadi q̇ava)
• German: löslicher Kaffee m, Pulverkaffee (de) m, Expresskaffee m, Instantkaffee (de) m
• Greek: στιγμιαίος καφές (el) m (stigmiaíos kafés)
• Hebrew: קָפֶה נָמֵס m (kafeh names)
• Hindi: तत्क्षण कॉफी (tatkṣaṇ kŏphī)
• Hungarian: instant kávé (hu)
• Icelandic: skyndikaffi
• Indonesian: kopi instan (id)
• Italian: caffè solubile
• Japanese: インスタントコーヒー (ja) (insutanto kōhii)
• Kazakh: ерітілмелі кофе (erıtılmelı kofe)
• Khmer: កាហ្វេបន្ទាន់ (kaafee bɑntoan)
• Korean: 인스턴트 커피 (inseuteonteu keopi)
• Lithuanian: tirpi kava
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pulverkaffe

  Nynorsk: pulverkaffi

• Persian: قهوه فوری (fa)
• Polish: kawa rozpuszczalna f
• Portuguese: café solúvel m, café instantâneo m
• Romanian: cafea instant f
• Russian: раствори́мый ко́фе (ru) m (rastvorímyj kófe)
• Sanskrit: काफीचूर्णम् (kāphīcūrṇam)
• Slovak: instantná káva
• Spanish: café instantáneo m, café soluble m, nescafé m
• Swedish: snabbkaffe (sv), pulverkaffe (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: hazır kahve (tr)
• Ukrainian: розчинна кава (rozčynna kava)
• Vietnamese: cà phê có liền, cà phê dùng ngay, cà phê hòa tan

Further reading

• instant coffee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia