Kaffee
Meaning
- (masculine,strong) coffee (beverage made by infusing coffee beans in hot water)
- (masculine,regional,strong) afternoon coffee, afternoon tea, coffee and cake (afternoon meal in northern and central Germany, particularly on Sundays)
Concepts
Synonyms
Kaffeepflanze
Schokolamai
Wachmacher
Kaffebohne
Cafe
Frequency
Hyphenated as
Kaf‧fee
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkafe/
Etymology
17th century, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوة (qahwa). The variants with -o-, which fell into disuse around 1800, are from Dutch koffie and English coffee.
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