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café

See also: cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café

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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 (lyrics and music), “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:

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Asturian

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Unadapted borrowing from French café.

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

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café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
  2. a cafe, coffee shop

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café m (plural cafés)

  1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè

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

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IPA(key): /ka.fe/

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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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Etymology

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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
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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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    café

    Etymology

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    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

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      Etymology tree
      Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
      Ottoman Turkish قهوهbor.
      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 (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, 2003–2024
      2. ^ “café”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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      café

      Etymology

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

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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
      2. cafe, coffee shop

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      • → Cebuano: kape
      • → Central Tarahumara: kajé
      • → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
      • → Hiligaynon: kape
      • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
      • → Navajo: ahwééh
      • → Tagalog: kape
      • → Waray-Waray: kape

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      Etymology

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      Unadapted borrowing from French café.

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      café n

      1. a café, a coffee shop

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      The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

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

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