mocha

See also: Mocha, mòchá, and mǒchá

English

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmoʊkə/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -əʊkə
  • (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɒkə/
    • Rhymes: -ɒkə

Noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

  1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
    Synonyms: café mocha, caffè mocha, mochaccino
  2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
    mocha fudge
  3. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
    mocha:  
  4. A strong Arabian coffee.
  5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
  6. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

  1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmˠɔxə]

Adjective

mocha

  1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of moch (early)

Noun

mocha f (genitive singular mocha)

  1. alternative form of moiche (earliness)

Declension

Declension of mocha (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative mocha
vocative a mhocha
genitive mocha
dative mocha
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mhocha
genitive na mocha
dative leis an mocha
don mhocha

Mutation

Mutated forms of mocha
radical lenition eclipsis
mocha mhocha not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.xa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Noun

mocha m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/ [ˈmo.t͡ʃa]
  • Rhymes: -otʃa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Adjective

mocha f sg

  1. feminine singular of mocho

Verb

mocha

  1. inflection of mochar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Upper Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔxa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Noun

mocha

  1. genitive singular of moch