{"id":9564,"date":"2018-03-12T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travel-advisor.eu\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:07:19","slug":"coffee-in-different-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel-advisor.eu\/en\/coffee-in-different-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to say coffee around the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The history of the coffee plant itself is pretty wild as it meandered its way across the world from East Africa to the Middle East to Europe and further on to the Americas & Asias. How to say coffee around the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you ever wondered how to say coffee in different languages? How to say coffee around the world? This is the tour around the world to learn how to say coffee in other languages. In English the word is coffee, which has its\u00a0origins in the 16th-century. It derives from the Italian\u00a0caffe, the Turkish\u00a0kahve, and the Arabic\u00a0qahwah. A few other languages the same word or a derivative:<\/p>\n

Urdu – <\/strong>coffee<\/p>\n

Welsh –<\/strong> coffi<\/p>\n

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In many languages throughout the world the word is pronounced in a very similar manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afrikaans – <\/strong>koffie (pronounced coffee<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Dutch –<\/strong> koffie (pronounced coffee<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Esperanto –<\/strong> kafo<\/p>\n

German –<\/strong> der Kaffee (pronounced kah-FEE<\/em>; masculine; the \u201cK\u201d is capitalized because all German nouns are capitalized)<\/p>\n

Finnish –<\/strong> kahvi<\/p>\n

Hindi –<\/strong> kofi (pronounced KOH-fee<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Russian –<\/strong> kofe (pronounced koe-fee<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Caf\u00e9\u00a0(pronounced\u00a0ka-FEY<\/em>)\u00a0is used more widely than coffee and a variety of languages prefer it.<\/strong> Using\u00a0 caf\u00e9\u00a0when traveling around the world is always good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Italian –<\/strong> caffe<\/p>\n

French –<\/strong> caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

Spanish –<\/strong> el caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

Bengali\/Bangla –<\/strong> caf\u00e9<\/div>\n
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Catalan –<\/strong> cafe<\/p>\n

Galician –<\/strong> caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

Irish –<\/strong> caife<\/p>\n

Portuguese –<\/strong> caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

Romanian –<\/strong>cafea (pronounced caf\u00e9-ah)<\/p>\n

Thai –<\/strong> kafea or ca-fea<\/p>\n

Vietnamese –<\/strong> ca phe (pronounced ka FEY) or cafe<\/p>\n

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Many languages prefer to use a\u00a0‘k’ instead oc “c” in caf\u00e9, though the pronunciation rarely changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albanian –<\/strong> kafe (pronounced KA-fey<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Basque –<\/strong> kafea or akeuta<\/p>\n

Bulgarian –<\/strong>kafe<\/p>\n

Creole –<\/strong> kafe<\/p>\n

Danish<\/strong>: kaffe (pronounced kah-FEY<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Greek –<\/strong> kaf\u00e9s (pronounced ka-FACE<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Haitian Creole –<\/strong> kafe (pronounced kah-FEY<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Hebrew –<\/strong> ka-feh<\/p>\n

Macedonian –<\/strong> kafe<\/p>\n

Maltese –<\/strong> kafe<\/p>\n

Norwegian –<\/strong> kaffe<\/p>\n

Swedish –<\/strong> kaffe<\/p>\n

Wolof –<\/strong> kafe<\/p>\n

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European languages use a softer ending, like ‘fee’\u00a0<\/em>rather than ‘fay.<\/em>‘<\/strong><\/p>\n

Icelandic –<\/strong> kaffii’<\/p>\n

Latvian –<\/strong> kafija (pronounced\u00a0ka-fee-ya<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Luxembourgish –<\/strong> Kaffi (like in German, all nouns are capitalized)<\/p>\n

The languages of China and its neighbors are interesting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chinese (Cantonese) –<\/strong> ga feh<\/p>\n

Chinese (Mandarin) –<\/strong> kafei<\/p>\n

Taiwanese –<\/strong> ka fei<\/p>\n

Ethiopian Amharic –<\/strong> buna (pronounced boona<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Ethiopian Semitic – <\/strong>bunna, buni, or bun<\/p>\n

Arabic –<\/strong> qahioa, qahua or qahwe<\/p>\n

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‘Kava’ is a very popular word for coffee. Taking from the Arabic word\u00a0qahwah, the Turkish word kahveh developed. This led to many of the Eastern European languages using the word\u00a0kava\u00a0for coffee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Turkish –<\/strong> kahveh\u00a0(pronounced kah-VEY<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Belarusian –<\/strong> kava<\/p>\n

Croatian –<\/strong> kava<\/p>\n

Czech –<\/strong> kava (pronounced kaava<\/em>) or kafe<\/p>\n

Lithuanian –<\/strong> kava<\/p>\n

Polish –<\/strong> kawa (pronounced kava<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Slovakian –<\/strong> kava (pronounced kah-va<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Ukrainian –<\/strong> kavy or kava<\/p>\n

Georgian –<\/strong> qava or chai<\/p>\n

Hungarian –<\/strong> kav\u00e9 (pronounced KAH-vey<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Serbian –<\/strong> kafa<\/p>\n

Slovenian –<\/strong> kave<\/p>\n

Yiddish –<\/strong> kave<\/p>\n

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As we move into the islands of the Pacific Ocean, there are more variations of\u00a0kopi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Filipino\/Tagalog –<\/strong> kape<\/p>\n

Hawaiian –<\/strong> kope<\/p>\n

Indonesian<\/strong> – kopi<\/p>\n

Korean –<\/strong> keopi or ko-pyi<\/p>\n

Malay –<\/strong> kawah or koppi<\/p>\n

Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) –<\/strong> kopi<\/p>\n

Tamil (Sri Lanka) –<\/strong> kapi-kottai or kopi<\/p>\n

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There are even more ways to say coffee.You can see some similarities with the more popular derivatives, but they are unique.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armenian –<\/strong> surch (pronounced suurch<\/em>) or sourdj<\/p>\n

Estonian –<\/strong> kohv<\/p>\n

Japanese –<\/strong> koohii<\/p>\n

Ojibwe –<\/strong> muckadaymashkikiwabu (literally mean “black medicine water” in the language of the Anishinabek Native Americans)<\/p>\n

Persian –<\/strong> q\u00e9hv\u00e9<\/p>\n

Swahili<\/strong> –<\/strong> kahawa<\/p>\n

Zulu –<\/strong> ikhofi<\/p>\n

The meaning of coffee is a drink made from the roasted and ground beanlike seeds of a tropical shrub, served hot or iced. The shrub of the bedstraw family that yields the coffee seeds, two of which are contained in each red berry. Native to the Old World tropics, most coffee is grown in tropical America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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