café

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

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

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

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

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”:

• (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop, coffee bar

• bar
• bistro
• cafeteria
• restaurant

• face, ecaf

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

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

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

• cafio

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

IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee

• 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

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

1. café

• fortovscafé

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

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈfeː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧fé
• Rhymes: -eː

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

1. café; coffee shop

   Synonym: koffiehuis

2. pub, bar

   Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé

3. snackbar

   Synonym: eetcafé

• biercafé
• biljartcafé
• bruin café
• cafébezoeker
• caféhouder
• eetcafé
• grand café
• huiskamercafé
• internetcafé
• poolcafé
• stamcafé

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.

• IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

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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

• cafèt’
• cafétéria
• décaféination
• décaféiner

• Haitian Creole: kafe
• Louisiana Creole: kafe

Borrowings

café (plural cafés)

1. of the colour of coffee

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

• face

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

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

• (coffee plant): cafeeira

• cafeeira

• “café”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Borrowed from French café.

café m (plural cafés)

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

• caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)

Unadapted borrowing from French café. Doublet of kawa.

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

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

• café in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• cafè (obsolete)

Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧fé

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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.

• Kadiwéu: gaape

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧fé

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

1. brown

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. cafe, coffee shop

• → Cebuano: kape
• → Central Tarahumara: kajé
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
• → Hiligaynon: kape
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
• → Navajo: ahwééh
• → Tagalog: kape
  • → Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
• → Waray-Waray: kape

• “café”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• kafé

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfeː/

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• Rhymes: -eː

café n

1. a café, a coffee shop

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

• cafeteria/kafeteria
• fik
• kafé
• kaffestuga
• konditori

• internetcafé

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