Kaffee

== Bavarian == === Etymology === 17th century, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوة (qahwa). Doublet of Café. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɔfe̞/, /kɔˈfe̞ː/, [kɑ-], [-feː], [-fɛː] (West Central) IPA(key): /kɑˈfe̞ː/, [ɡ̥ɑ-], [-feː] (East Central, Vienna, Southern) Hyphenation: Kaf‧fee Homophone: Café === Noun === Kaffee m (plural Kaffee, diminutive Kaffetscherl) (uncountable) coffee (countable) A serving of coffee == German == === Alternative forms === Caffe, Caffee, Caffeh, Coffe, Coffee, Coffeh, Kaffe, Kaffeh, Koffe, Koffee, Koffeh (obsolete) === Etymology === From French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوة (qahwa). First attested in the 17th century. The variants with -o-, which fell into disuse around 1800, are from Dutch koffie and English coffee. Doublet of Café. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkafe/ (Germany) IPA(key): /kaˈfeː/ (Austria, occasionally elsewhere, but widely perceived as snobbish) IPA(key): /ˈkafə/ (parts of northern and eastern Germany) Hyphenation: Kaf‧fee Rhymes: -afe, -afə, -eː Homophone: Café (only according to the Austrian pronunciation of Kaffee) === Noun === Kaffee m (strong, genitive Kaffees, plural Kaffees, diminutive Käffchen n or Kaffeechen n or Käfflein n or Kaffeelein n) coffee (beverage made by infusing coffee beans in hot water) (regional) afternoon coffee, afternoon tea, coffee and cake (afternoon meal in northern and central Germany, particularly on Sundays) ==== Usage notes ==== (beverage): As with most beverages in German, the plural Kaffees is only used to mean “several kinds of coffee”. Otherwise the singular form is used: Zwei Kaffee, bitte! – “Two coffees, please!” (meal): The use for the afternoon meal is still applicable if one prefers other beverages, such as tea. It would not be all too extraordinary to say: Wir trinken meistens Tee zum Kaffee. (literally, “We usually have tea for coffee.”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (meal) Kaffeetrinken, Kaffee und Kuchen ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “Kaffee”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Kaffee” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Kaffee” in Duden online Kaffee on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de