café
See also: cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café
English
Alternative forms
- cafe
- caffè (Italianate)
- caffe (Italianate)
- caffé (Italianate, nonstandard)
- caff (British, informal)
Etymology
Borrowed from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæfeɪ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophone: CAFE
- Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ
Noun
café (plural cafés)
- 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.
- (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
- 1982, Joni Mitchell, Chinese Café / Unchained Melody (song)
Synonyms
- (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
Coordinate terms
- bar
- bistro
- cafeteria
- restaurant
Derived terms
- butler café
- café-chantant
- café de move-on
- café-goer
- café noisette
- café society
- café wall illusion
- cat café
- cybercafé
- dementia café
- maid café
- memory café
- neko café
- pavement café
- sidewalk café
- transport café
Translations
coffee shop
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See also
- chasse-café
Anagrams
- face, ecaf
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from French café.
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- a cafe, coffee shop
Catalan
Pronunciation
Audio (Valencian) (file)
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French café.
Noun
café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)
- café
Declension
Declension of café
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | café | caféen | caféer | caféerne |
| genitive | cafés | caféens | caféers | caféernes |
Derived terms
- fortovscafé
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːˈfeː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧fé
- Rhymes: -eː
Noun
café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)
- café; coffee shop
- Synonym: koffiehuis
- pub, bar
- Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé
- snackbar
- Synonym: eetcafé
Derived terms
- biercafé
- biljartcafé
- bruin café
- cafébezoeker
- caféhouder
- eetcafé
- grand café
- huiskamercafé
- internetcafé
- poolcafé
- stamcafé
French
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.fe/
Standard French (file) Belgium (file) Central France (file) West France (file) Quebec (file)
Noun
café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)
- 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
- coffee colour
- public house
- cafe, coffee shop
Derived terms
- café allongé
- café arrosé
- café au lait
- café-bar
- café-calva
- café-chicorée
- café chocolaté
- café complet
- café-concert
- café crème
- café du commerce
- café filtre
- café frappé
- café glacé
- caféiculteur
- caféiculture
- caféier
- caféière
- caféine
- café instantané
- caféique
- caféisme
- café-lambig
- café liégeois
- café noir
- caféone
- café soluble
- caféterie
- café-théatre
- cafetier
- cafetière
- café turc
- cuiller à café
- cuillère à café
- fort de café
- garçon de café
- machine à café
- marc de café
- moulin à café
- pause-café
- pousse-café
Related terms
- cafèt’
- cafétéria
- décaféination
- décaféiner
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kafe
- Louisiana Creole French: kafe
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: kafeja
- → Alemannic German: Kaafe
- → Arabic: كَافِيه (kāfē)
- Gulf Arabic: كافيه (kāfē)
- → Asturian: café
- → Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa3 fe1)
- Taishanese: 咖啡 (ga1 fie2)
- → Coeur d'Alene: lkaapi
- → Crimean Tatar: kafe
- → Danish: café
- → English: café
- → German: Café (“café”)
- → German: Kaffee (“coffee”)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kaffe
- → Dutch: café
- → Hebrew: קָפֶה (kafé)
- → Kumak: kafe
- → Luxembourgish: Café
- → Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)
- → Norman: café
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi
- → Nzadi: kafɛ
- → Ojibwe: aapii
- → Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Armenian: կաֆե (kafe)
- → Mongolian: кафе (kafe)
- → Ukrainian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Portuguese: café, cafè
- Kadiwéu: gaape
- → Serbo-Croatian: kafić
- → Spanish: café
- → Cebuano: kape
- → Central Tarahumara: kajé
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
- → Hiligaynon: kape
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
- → Navajo: ahwééh
- → Tagalog: kapé
- → Min Nan: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
- → Waray-Waray: kape
- → Swedish: café
- → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
- → West Uvean: kafe
- → Vietnamese: cà phê
Adjective
café (plural cafés)
- of the colour of coffee
References
- Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- face
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɐˈfɛ/
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- O día estaba frío, i dempois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría mal unha cunca de café.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- coffee bean
- coffee plant
- cafeteria
Synonyms
- (coffee plant): cafeeira
Related terms
- cafeeira
Further reading
- “café” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French café.
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- (Jersey) coffee (beverage)
- (Jersey) café (establishment)
Related terms
- caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- cafè (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈfɛ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈfɛ/
Audio "Um café" (Brazil) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: ca‧fé
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises
- Ellipsis of café da manhã.
Derived terms
- cafeteria
- cafeteira
- café da manhã
- cafezal
Descendants
- Kadiwéu: gaape
Spanish
café
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]
Audio (BOL) (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: ca‧fé
Adjective
café (plural café or cafés)
- brown
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- cafe, coffee shop
Derived terms
- (augmentatives) cafetón
- café concierto
- café con leche
- café con piernas
- café de civeta
- café helado
- cafeína
- café irlandés
- cafelito
- café para todos
- café solo
- cafetal
- cafetera
- cafetería
- cafetero
- cafeto
- descafeinado
- (diminutives) cafecito, cafelito
- máquina de café (“coffee machine, coffee maker”)
- molinillo de café
- molino de café
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kape
- → Central Tarahumara: kajé
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
- → Hiligaynon: kape
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
- → Navajo: ahwééh
- → Tagalog: kapé
- → Min Nan: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
- → Waray-Waray: kape
Further reading
- “café”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French café.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈfeː/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eː
Noun
café n
- cafe, coffee shop
Declension
| Declension of café | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | café | caféet | caféer | caféerna |
| Genitive | cafés | caféets | caféers | caféernas |
Synonyms
- cafeteria/kafeteria
- fik
- kafé
- kaffestuga
- konditori
Derived terms
The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.