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/

• Audio (US):

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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, “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
• Syllabification: 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

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, 2012–2025
• “café” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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]

• (Alentejo, some speakers) IPA^(key): /kɐˈfɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧fé

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

• → Kadiwéu: gaape

café (invariable)

1. coffee (having a pale brown color)

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• 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)