قہوہ

See also: قهوة and قهوه

Baluchi

Noun

قہوہ • (qahwa)

  1. coffee

See also

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قهوه (qahwa), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Cognate with Bengali কাহোয়া (kahōẇa), Urdu قَہْوَہ (qahva), Gujarati કહવા (kahvā). Doublet of کافی (kāfī).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /käː˩˥.ʋäː/, /qäː˩˥.ʋäː/
  • (emphatic) IPA(key): /käɦ.ʋäː/, /käːɦ.ʋäː/

Noun

قَہْوَہ • (qahvahm (Gurmukhi spelling ਕ਼ਾਹਵਾ or ਕਾਹਵਾ)

  1. green tea; kahwah
  2. (obsolete) coffee
    Synonym: کافی (kāfī)

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “قہوَہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قهوه (qahwa), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

Pronunciation

Noun

قَہْوَہ • (qahvam (Hindi spelling क़हवा)

  1. tea, kahwah
  2. coffee
    Synonyms: (coffee) کافی (kāfī), (coffee) کوفی (kofī)

Further reading

  • قہوہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.