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café

See also: çafë, cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.

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café (plural cafés)

  2. 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.
  3. (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
    • 1982, Joni Mitchell, “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French café.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ca‧fé

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café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
  2. a cafe, coffee shop

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  • García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “café”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
  • “café”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

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café m (plural cafés)

  1. (Valencia) alternative spelling of cafè

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Etymology

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

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café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee

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References

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  • Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎[2] (in French), Troyes

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French café.

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café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

  1. café

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Declension of café
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative café caféen caféer caféerne
genitive cafés caféens caféers caféernes

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

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  • IPA(key): /kaːˈfeː/
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  • Hyphenation: ca‧fé
  • Rhymes: -eː

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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

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    Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé,[1] from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.

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    café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)

    1. coffee (drink)
      Synonyms: caoua, noir, petit noir
      Hypernym: boisson
      Hyponyms: bistouille, café arrosé, café au lait, café-calva, café-chicorée, café chocolaté, café crème, café filtre, café frappé, café-lambig, café turc, cappuccino, décaféiné, expresso, macchiato, ristretto
    2. coffee colour
    3. public house
    4. cafe, coffee shop

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    • Haitian Creole: kafe
    • Louisiana Creole: kafe
    • Mauritian Creole: kafe
    • Réunion Creole French: kafé
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    café (plural cafés)

    1. of the colour of coffee

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    1. ^ Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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    Galician

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    • IPA(key): /kaˈfɛ/ [kɑˈfɛ]
    • Rhymes: -ɛ
    • Hyphenation: ca‧fé

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    café m (plural cafés)

    1. coffee
      O día estaba frío, e despois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría nada mal un café.
      It was a cold day, and after lunch the guests decided to have a coffee.
    2. coffee bean
    3. coffee plant
    4. cafeteria

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    Norman

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    Borrowed from French café.

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    café m (plural cafés)

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

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    Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
    Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.
    Italian caffèbor.
    French caféubor.
    Polish café

      Unadapted borrowing from French café. Doublet of kawa.

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      • IPA(key): /kaˈfɛ/
      • Rhymes: -ɛ
      • Syllabification: ca‧fé

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      café n (indeclinable)

      1. café, coffee shop (establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises)
        Synonym: kawiarnia

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      • “café”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

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      Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
      Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.
      Italian caffèbor.
      French cafébor.
      Portuguese café

        Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).[1][2]

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        café m (countable and uncountable, plural cafés)

        1. (uncountable) coffee (beverage)
          O café é uma das bebidas mais consumidas no mundo.
          Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world.
        2. coffee (a serving of this beverage)
        3. coffee bean
        4. coffee (powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds)
        5. coffee (any plant of the genus Coffea)
          Synonyms: cafezeiro, cafeeiro
        6. café; coffee shop (establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages)
          Gosto muito deste café.
          I like this café very much.
        7. coffee (pale brown color)
        8. (Brazil) ellipsis of café da manhã (“breakfast”)
          Saí tão depressa de casa que até esqueci de tomar café.
          I left home so hurriedly that I even forgot to have breakfast.
        9. (Brazil) ellipsis of café da tarde

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        café (invariable)

        1. coffee (having a pale brown color)

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        1. ^ “café”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
        2. ^ “café”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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        Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
        Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.
        Italian caffèbor.
        French cafébor.
        Spanish café

          Borrowed from French café, or less likely directly from Italian caffè.

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          café m or f (masculine and feminine plural café or cafés)

          1. brown

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          café m (plural cafés)

          1. coffee
            • 1705, Francisco Sobrino, Dicionario nuevo de las lenguas española y francesa, volume 1, Bruxelles: F. Foppens, page 69b:
              Café, m. Caffé
              Café = coffee
            • 1726, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo, Theatro critico universal, volume 1, Madrid: L. F. Mojados, page 129f.:
              Monſ. Ducan, Dotor de Mompeller, refiere de otro famoſo Medico Francès, que recetaba el Caphè vniverſalmente à todos ſus enfermos.
              [Monsieur Ducan, doctor de Mompeller, refiere de otro famoso médico francés, que recetaba el café universalmente a todos sus enfermos.]
              Mr. Ducan, doctor of Montpellier, refers to another famous French doctor, who prescribed coffee to all of his patiens altogether.
            • 1740, Bernardo de Ulloa, Restablecimiento de las fabricas i comercio español, volume 1, Madrid: A. Marin, page 161f.:
              Explica las mercaderias que los Olandeſes ſacan de varias partes […] Azucar, Cafè, y Thè, Ambar, […]
              [Explica las mercaderías que los holandeses sacan de varias partes […] azúcar, café y té, ámbar, […] ]
              Explains the goods that the Dutch take from various places, […] sugar, coffee and tea, amber, […]
            • 18th c., Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa, Noticias secretas de América, London: R. Taylor, published 1826, page 602:
              La Francia estableció en sus colonias de Santo Domingo y la Martinica el comercio de café para excusarse de traerlo del Oriente
              France established coffee trade on its colonies of Saint-Domingue and Martinique to avoid having to take it from the East
          2. cafe, coffee shop
          3. brown

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          Noun

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          café n

          1. alternative spelling of kafé (“café, coffee shop”)

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          Declension of café
          nominative genitive
          singular indefinite café cafés
          definite caféet, cafét caféets, caféts
          plural indefinite caféer caféers
          definite caféerna caféernas

          References

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          • “café”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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