café

See also: cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café

English

Alternative forms

• cafe
• caffè (Italianate)
• caffe (Italianate)
• caffé (Italianate, nonstandard)
• caff (UK, informal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæfeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: CAFE
• Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

café (plural cafés)

1. 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.
2. (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
   • 1982, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:

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 revolutionary
• café society
• café terrace
• café wall illusion
• cat café
• cybercafé
• dementia café
• maid café
• memory café
• neko café
• pavement café
• sidewalk café
• transport café

 

Translations

coffee shop

• Afrikaans: kafee, koffiehuis
• Albanian: kafene (sq) f
• Arabic: مَقْهًى m (maqhan), كَافِيه m (kāfīh)

  Egyptian Arabic: قهوة f (ʔahwa), كافيه m (kafē)

  Hijazi Arabic: قهوة f (gahwa), مقهى m (maqha, magha), كافيه m (kafē)

  Moroccan Arabic: قهوة f (qahwa)

  South Levantine Arabic: قهوة f (ʔahwe, gahwa), مقهى m (maʔha, magha), كافيه m (kafē)

• Armenian: սրճարան (hy) (srčaran), կաֆե (hy) (kafe)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܲܗܘܵܚܵܢܵܐ m (qāhwaḳana), ܒܹܝܬ ܩܲܗܘܵܐ m (bēt qāhwa)
• Asturian: cafetería f, café (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qəhvəxana, kafe (az)
• Bashkir: ҡәһүәхана (qəhwəxana)
• Belarusian: кавя́рня (be) f (kavjárnja), кафэ́ n (kafé)
• Bengali: হোটেল (bn) (hōṭel), ক্যাফে (bn) (kêphe), কফি হাউস (kophi haus)
• Bulgarian: кафене́ n (kafené), кафе́ (bg) n (kafé)
• Burmese: ကဖီး (my) (ka.hpi:), လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (lakhpak-ranyhcuing) (tea house)
• Catalan: cafè (ca) m, cafeteria f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咖啡屋 (gaa³ fe¹ uk¹), 咖啡店 (gaa³ fe¹ dim³), 咖啡館／咖啡馆 (gaa³ fe¹ gun²)

  Dungan: кафэ (kafe)

  Hokkien: 咖啡廳／咖啡厅 (ka-pi-thiaⁿ), 咖啡館／咖啡馆 (ka-pi-koán)

  Mandarin: 咖啡屋 (zh) (kāfēiwū), 咖啡店 (zh) (kāfēidiàn), 咖啡館／咖啡馆 (zh) (kāfēiguǎn)

• Cornish: koffiji m
• Crimean Tatar: qavehane
• Czech: kavárna (cs) f
• Danish: café (da) c, cafe (da) c
• Dutch: café (nl) n, koffiehuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: kafejo
• Estonian: kohvik (et)
• Faroese: kaffistova f, kaffihús n
• Finnish: kahvila (fi)
• French: café (fr) m
• Galician: cafetaría (gl) f, cafetería (gl) f, café (gl) m, bar (gl) m
• Georgian: კაფე (ḳape), ყავახანა (ka) (q̇avaxana)
• German: Café (de) n, Kaffeehaus (de) n
• Greek: καφενείο (el) n (kafeneío), καφετέρια (el) f (kafetéria), καφέ (el) n (kafé)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Gujarati: કૅફે (kĕphe)
• Hebrew: בֵּית קָפֶה (he) m (beit kafé)
• Hindi: होटल (hi) m (hoṭal), कैफ़े m (kaife), कैफे m (kaiphe), कॉफ़ीख़ाना m (kŏfīxānā), कॉफ़ीघर m (kŏfīghar), कॉफ़ीहाउस (kŏfīhāus)
• Hungarian: kávéház (hu), kávézó (hu), presszó (hu), eszpresszó (hu)
• Icelandic: kaffihús (is) n
• Ido: kafeerio (io)
• Indonesian: warung kopi, kafe (id)
• Irish: caifé m
• Italian: caffè (it) m, caffetteria (it) f, bar (it) m
• Japanese: 喫茶店 (ja) (きっさてん, kissaten), カフェ (ja) (kafe), 喫茶 (ja) (きっさ, kissa)
• Kazakh: кофехана (kofexana), кафе (kafe)
• Khmer: ហាងកាហ្វេ (haang kaafee)
• Korean: 카페 (ko) (kape), 커피숍 (keopisyop), 커피점 (keopijeom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qehwexane (ku), kafê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кафе (ky) (kafe)
• Lao: ກາເຟ (lo) (kā fē), ຮ້ານຄາເຟ (hān khā fē)
• Latvian: kafejnīca f
• Lithuanian: kavìnė f
• Lü: ᦂᦱᦚᦶ (k̇aaḟae)
• Macedonian: ка́фуле n (káfule) (coffee house), кафа́на f (kafána) (restaurant)
• Malay: kedai kopi (ms), kafe (ms)
• Mongolian: кафе (mn) (kafe), цайны газар (cajny gazar)

  Mongolian: ᠻᠠᠹᠧ (kafē) ᠴᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ (čai-yin ɣaǰar)

• Navajo: daʼjiyání
• Northern Sami: kafea
• Northern Thai: ᨠᩣᨺᩯ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kafé (no) m, café (no) m

• Odia: କାଫେ (or) (kaphe)
• Ottoman Turkish: قهوه‌خانه (kahvehane)
• Pashto: هوټل (ps) (hoṭal), خوړنځی (ps) (xwaṛǝnjay), قهوه خونه f (qahwa xuna)
• Persian: کافِه (fa) (kâfe), قَهْوِه‌خانِه (qahve-xâne), قَهْوِه‌خونِه (qahve-xune) (colloquial, Tehran)
• Polish: kawiarnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: café (pt) m, cafeteria (pt) f
• Romanian: cafenea (ro) f
• Russian: кафе́ (ru) n (kafɛ́), кофе́йня (ru) f (koféjnja), кафете́рий (ru) m (kafɛtɛ́rij)
• Scottish Gaelic: cafaidh m, bùth-cofaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кафа̀на f, кава̀на f, ка̀фӣћ m

  Roman: kafàna (sh) f, kavàna (sh) f, kàfīć m

• Shan: ၵႃၾႄ (kǎa fǎae)
• Sinhalese: ආපනශාලාව (āpanaśālāwa)
• Slovak: kaviareň (sk) f
• Slovene: kavarna (sl) f
• Spanish: café (es) m, cafetería (es) f (Spain), cafetín
• Swahili: mkahawa (sw)
• Swedish: kafé (sv) n, café (sv) n
• Tagalog: kapihan
• Tajik: қаҳвахона (qahvaxona), кафе (tg) (kafe)
• Tamil: அருந்தகம் (ta) (aruntakam), கபே (kapē), கஃபே (kafē)
• Tatar: каһвәханә (qahwäxanä)
• Thai: กาแฟ (th) (gaa-fɛɛ), ร้านกาแฟ (ráan-gaa-fɛɛ), คาเฟ่ (kaa-fêe)
• Tongan: fale kai
• Turkish: kafe (tr), kahvehane (tr)
• Turkmen: kebaphana, kofehana, kafe
• Ukrainian: кав'я́рня (uk) f (kavʺjárnja), кафе́ n (kafé)
• Urdu: ہوٹَل m (hoṭal), کَیفے m (kaife), قَہْوَہ خانَہ m (qahva xāna), کافی خانَہ m (kāfī xāna), کوفی خانَہ m (kofī xāna), کافی ہاؤُس (kāfī hāus), کافی گَھر m (kāfī ghar)
• Uyghur: قەھۋەخانا (qehwexana)
• Uzbek: qahvaxona (uz), kafe (uz), kafeteriy
• Vietnamese: tiệm cà phê, quán cà phê, quán nước
• Volapük: kafibötöp (vo)
• Welsh: caffi m, siop goffi f
• Yiddish: קאַפֿע (yi) m (kafe), קאַווע-הויז n (kave-hoyz), קאַוויאַרניע f (kavyarnye)

See also

• chasse-café

 

Anagrams

• face, ecaf

Asturian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a cafe, coffee shop

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Valencian)

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

Noun

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

1. 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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈfeː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ca‧fé
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

1. café; coffee shop

   Synonym: koffiehuis

2. pub, bar

   Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé

3. 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, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

• Standard French

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• Central France

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• West France

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Noun

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

Derived terms

• café allongé
• café arrosé
• café au lait
• café chocolaté
• café complet
• café crème
• café du commerce
• café filtre
• café frappé
• café glacé
• café instantané
• café liégeois
• café noir
• café soluble
• café turc
• café-bar
• café-calva
• café-chicorée
• café-concert
• café-lambig
• café-théatre
• caféiculteur
• caféiculture
• caféier
• caféière
• caféine
• caféique
• caféisme
• caféone
• caféterie
• cafetier
• cafetière
• 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: 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)
• → Khmer: កាហ្វេ (kaafee)
• → Kumak: kafe
• → Lao: ກາເຟ (kā fē)
• → 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)
• → Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کافه (kāfe)

• → 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
    • → Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
  • → Waray-Waray: kape
• → Swedish: café
• → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
• → West Uvean: kafe
• → Vietnamese: cà phê

Adjective

café (plural cafés)

1. of the colour of coffee

Further reading

• “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• face

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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)

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

Related terms

• caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)

Polish

café

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café. Doublet of kawa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Further reading

• café in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cafè (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French café, 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/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧fé

• Audio (Brazil)

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee

   O café é uma das bebidas mais consumidas no mundo.

   Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world.

2. 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

   Gosto muito deste café.

   I like this café very much.

3. (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.

Derived terms

• café da manhã
• cafeeiro
• cafeteira
• cafeteria
• cafezal
• cafezeiro

 

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: gaape

Spanish

café

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]

• Audio (Bolivia):

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• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧fé

Adjective

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

1. brown

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. cafe, coffee shop

Derived terms

• café a la turca
• café con leche
• café con piernas
• café concierto
• café de civeta
• café helado
• café irlandés
• café para todos
• café solo
• café turco
• cafeína
• cafelito
• cafetal
• cafetera
• cafetería
• cafetero
• cafeto
• (augmentatives) cafetón
• 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
  • → Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
• → Waray-Waray: kape

Further reading

• “café”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Alternative forms

• kafé

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfeː/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

café n

1. a café, a coffee shop

Usage notes

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

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

• internetcafé

References

• café in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• café in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)