kahvi

== Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Swedish kaffe (with regular -ff- > -hv- due to most Finnish dialects lacking /f/), ultimately from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑhʋi/, [ˈkɑ̝xʋi] Rhymes: -ɑhʋi Syllabification(key): kah‧vi Hyphenation(key): kah‧vi === Noun === kahvi coffee [from 18th c.] (beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant) Hyponyms: sumppi, sumppikahvi coffee (seeds of the plant used to make coffee, or a powder ground from these seeds) (in the plural) coffee meeting, especially at someone's home Synonyms: kahvittelu, kahvitus ==== Usage notes ==== In addition to standard Finnish, kahvi is traditionally in use in the dialects of Savonia, Central Ostrobothnia and Peräpohjola. ==== Declension ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== kahve (dialectal, Southwest Finnish, North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu) kahvee (dialectal, Tavastia, Satakunta) kaffi (dialectal, Western Finnish) kaffe (dialectal, South Ostrobothnia) kohvi (dialectal, South Karelia, Ingria) kahvet (dialectal, rare, South Ostrobothnia) kahvei (dialectal, rare, Western Uusimaa) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Karelian: North Karelian: kahvi, kohvi === References === === Further reading === “kahvi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023 “kahvi”, in Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja [Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish]‎[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2021, →ISSN, retrieved 7 August 2024. kahvi on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi == Karelian == === Alternative forms === kohvi (dialectal) === Etymology === Borrowed from Finnish kahvi. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑhʋi/ Hyphenation: kah‧vi === Noun === kahvi (genitive kahvin, partitive kahvie) (North Karelian) coffee ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (South Karelian) kofei === References === P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “кофе”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN