mocha

See also: mǒchá and Mocha

English

A caffè mocha.

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊkə/
  • Rhymes: -əʊkə
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒkə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkə

Noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha.

   Synonyms: caffè mocha, mochaccino

2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.

   mocha fudge

3. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

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4. A strong Arabian coffee.
5. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Related terms

• mochaccino

Translations

coffee with chocolate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡 (zh) (mókǎ)

• Danish: mokka
• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• French: moka (fr) m
• German: Mokka (de) m
• Irish: moca m, caife mhoca
• Japanese: モカ (moka)
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• Korean: 모카 (moka)
• Maori: kawhe moka
• Portuguese: moca (pt) m
• Romanian: moca (ro) f
• Russian: мо́кко (ru) m (mókko)
• Spanish: moca (es) m
• Swedish: mocka (sv), mockakaffe
• Tagalog: moka

coffee/chocolate flavour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡味 (mókǎwèi)

• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
• Finnish: mokka (fi)
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• German: Mokka- (in compound words)
• Romanian: moca (ro)
• Swedish: mocka (sv)
• Tagalog: moka

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡色 (mókǎsè)

• Dutch: mokka (nl) f
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• Finnish: mokka (fi)
• Swedish: mockafärgad, kaffefärgad (sv)

strong Arabian coffee

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯咖啡 (Ālābó kāfēi)

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• Dutch: mokka (nl) f, Arabische koffie m or f
• Finnish: mokka (fi)

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

Translations

of a brown colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩卡味的 (mókǎwèi de)

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• Dutch: mokka (nl)
• Finnish: kahvinruskea

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• caffè mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MACHO, macho

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmˠɔxə]

Adjective

mocha

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of moch (“early”)

Noun

mocha f (genitive singular mocha)

1. Alternative form of moiche (“earliness”)

Declension

Declension of mocha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative mocha Vocative a mhocha Genitive mocha Dative mocha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an mhocha Genitive na mocha Dative leis an mocha don mhocha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mocha	mhocha	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mocha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.xa/

Noun

mocha m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/ [ˈmo.t͡ʃa]

Adjective

mocha f sg

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective mocho.