caf

caf

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Carrier.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Southern Carrier terms

• (café, cafeteria): caff

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• enPR: kăf, IPA^(key): /kæf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æf

caf (countable and uncountable, plural cafs)

1. (countable, informal) A café.
   • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:

     Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.

2. (countable, informal) A cafeteria.
   • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:

     There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.

   • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:

     Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.

   • 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:

     One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.

3. (countable, uncountable) A caffeinated coffee.

   Coordinate term: decaf

   • 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:

     If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.

• caf up

• (caffeinated coffee): decaf, half-caf

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

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caf m (plural cafa, definite cafi, definite plural cafat)

1. membrane, thin peel

   Synonym: cipë

From Italian zaffo (law enforcer),^[1] from zaffare, from Venetic zafar, an alteration of acciuffare.^[2] First attested in 1555 by Buzuku, mentioned again by Bardhi in 1635.^[3]

caf m (plural cafa, definite cafi, definite plural cafat)

1. a mean person, villain.

   Synonyms: katil, zuzar

• “caf”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

caf

1. alternative form of chaf

• (Longshan) IPA^(key): /tsʰa˧˥/

caf

1. good

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).

• IPA^(key): /kɑːf/

cāf

1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
2. bold, brave

• Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
  • Scots: caif, kaif

• IPA^(key): /tʃaf/

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. kettle

• ca (colloquial)

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaː/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaː/
• Rhymes: -aːv

caf

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael