Kaffee

Meaning

  1. (masculine,strong) coffee (beverage made by infusing coffee beans in hot water)
  2. (masculine,regional,strong) afternoon coffee, afternoon tea, coffee and cake (afternoon meal in northern and central Germany, particularly on Sundays)

Synonyms

Kaffeepflanze

Schokolamai

Wachmacher

Kaffebohne

Cafe

Frequency

A2
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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