# café
## English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈkæfeɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: CAFE
* Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ

### Noun

café (plural cafés)
* 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.
* (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
** 1982, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:

#### Synonyms

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

#### Coordinate terms

* bar
* bistro
* cafeteria
* restaurant

#### Derived terms

* butler café
* café-goer
* café revolutionary
* café society
* café terrace
* café wall illusion
* cat café
* cybercafé
* dementia café
* HoReCa
* maid café
* memory café
* neko café
* pavement café
* sidewalk café
* transport café

#### Related terms

* café-chantant
* café de move-on
* café mocha
* café noisette

#### See also

* chasse-café

### Anagrams

* face, ecaf

## Asturian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: ca‧fé

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* coffee
* a cafe, coffee shop

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè

## Champenois
### Alternative forms

* cafio

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ka.fe/

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* coffee

#### Derived terms

* cafioter

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## Danish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

### Noun

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)
* café

#### Derived terms

* fortovscafé

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaːˈfeː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ca‧fé
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)
* café; coffee shop
    Synonym: koffiehuis
* pub, bar
    Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé
* snackbar
    Synonym: eetcafé

#### Derived terms

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

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.fe/
* Standard French:(file)
* Belgium:(file)
* Audio (Central France):(file)
* Audio (West France):(file)
* Audio (Quebec):(file)

### Noun

café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)
* 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
* coffee colour
* public house
* cafe, coffee shop

#### Derived terms

* café allongé
* café arrosé
* café au lait
* café chocolaté
* café complet
* café crème
* café du commerce
* café filtre
* café frappé
* café glacé
* café instantané
* café liégeois
* café noir
* café soluble
* café turc
* café-bar
* café-calva
* café-chicorée
* café-concert
* café-lambig
* café-théatre
* caféiculteur
* caféiculture
* caféier
* caféière
* caféine
* caféique
* caféisme
* caféone
* caféterie
* cafetier
* cafetière
* cuiller à café
* cuillère à café
* fort de café
* garçon de café
* machine à café
* marc de café
* moulin à café
* pause-café
* pousse-café

#### Related terms

* cafèt’
* cafétéria
* décaféination
* décaféiner

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: kafe
* Louisiana Creole: kafe

##### Borrowings

* → Albanian: kafeja
* → Alemannic German: Kaafe
* → Arabic: كَافِيه (kāfē)
    Gulf Arabic: كافيه (kāfē)
* → Asturian: café
* → Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)
* → Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa$^3$ fe$^1$)
    Taishanese: 咖啡 (ga$^1$ fie$^2$)
* → Coeur d'Alene: lkaapi
* → Crimean Tatar: kafe
* → Danish: café
* → English: café
* → German: Café (“café”)
* → German: Kaffee (“coffee”)
** → Norwegian Bokmål: kaffe
* → Dutch: café
* → Hebrew: קָפֶה (kafé)
* → Khmer: កាហ្វេ (kaafee)
* → Kumak: kafe
* → Lao: ກາເຟ (kā fē)
* → Luxembourgish: Café
* → Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)
* → Norman: café
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi
* → Nzadi: kafɛ
* → Ojibwe: aapii
* → Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
** → Armenian: կաֆե (kafe)
** → Georgian: კაფე (ḳape)
** → Mongolian: кафе (kafe)
** → Ukrainian: кафе́ (kafé)
* → Persian:
       Iranian Persian: کافه (kāfe)
* → Portuguese: café, cafè (obsolete)
** Kadiwéu: gaape
* → Serbo-Croatian: kafić
* → Spanish: café
** → 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
* → Swedish: café
* → Tamil: கப்பே (kappē)
* → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
* → West Uvean: kafe
* → Vietnamese: cà phê

### Adjective

café (plural cafés)
* of the colour of coffee

### References

* ↑ Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* face

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈfɛ/ [kɑˈfɛ]
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: ca‧fé

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* 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.
* coffee bean
* coffee plant
* cafeteria

#### Synonyms

* (coffee plant): cafeeira

#### Related terms

* cafeeira

### Further reading

* “café”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* (Jersey) coffee (beverage)
* (Jersey) café (establishment)

#### Related terms

* caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café. Doublet of kawa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈfɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: ca‧fé

### Noun

café n (indeclinable)
* 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

### Further reading

* café in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* cafè (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈfɛ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈfɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: ca‧fé
* Audio (Brazil):(file)

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* (uncountable) coffee (beverage)
    O café é uma das bebidas mais consumidas no mundo.Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world.
* coffee (a serving of this beverage)
* coffee bean
* coffee (powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds)
* coffee (any plant of the genus Coffea)
    Synonyms: cafezeiro, cafeeiro
* café; coffee shop (establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages)
    Gosto muito deste café.I like this café very much.
* coffee (pale brown color)
* (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.
* (Brazil) Ellipsis of café da tarde.

#### Derived terms

* borra de café
* café com leite
* café da manhã
* café da tarde
* café gelado
* café instantâneo
* café pequeno
* café preto
* café puro
* café solúvel
* café-arábica
* cafeeiro
* cafeteira
* cafeteria
* cafezal
* cafezeiro
* cafezinho
* chafé
* colher de café
* moedor de café
* moinho de café

#### Descendants

* Kadiwéu: gaape

### Adjective

café (invariable)
* coffee (having a pale brown color)

### References

* ↑ “café”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “café”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]
* Audio (Bolivia):(file)
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: ca‧fé

### Adjective

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

### Noun

café m (plural cafés)
* coffee
* cafe, coffee shop

#### Derived terms

* café a la turca
* café con leche
* café con piernas
* café concierto
* café de civeta
* café de especialidad
* café helado
* café irlandés
* café para todos
* café solo
* café turco
* (diminutives) cafecito, cafelito
* cafeína
* cafelito
* cafetal
* cafetera
* cafetería
* cafetero
* cafeto
* (augmentatives) cafetón
* descafeinado
* máquina de café (“coffee machine, coffee maker”)
* molinillo de café
* molino de café

#### Descendants

* → 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

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* kafé

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈfeː/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

café n
* a café, a coffee shop

#### Usage notes

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

#### Synonyms

* cafeteria/kafeteria
* fik
* kafé
* kaffestuga
* konditori

#### Derived terms

* internetcafé

### References

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