carafe

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• UK, US: /kəˈɹæf/
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• rhymes with -æf
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 R AE1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”). Doublet of carboy.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: brokë — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Arabic: غَرَّافَة (ḡarrāfa) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Armenian: ջրաման (ǰraman) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Azerbaijani: qrafin — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Belarusian: графі́н (hrafín) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Bulgarian: гара́фа (garáfa) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Catalan: marraixa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Catalan: garrafa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Chinese Mandarin: 玻璃水瓶 (bōlí shuǐpíng) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Czech: karafa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Danish: karaffel — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Dutch: karaf — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Esperanto: karafo — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Estonian: karahvin — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Finnish: karahvi — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Finnish: kannu — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• French: carafe — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• French: carafon — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Galician: xerra — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• German: Karaffe — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• German: Wasserflasche — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Greek: καράφα (karáfa) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Hungarian: kancsó — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Hungarian: üvegkancsó — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Hungarian: karaf — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Icelandic: karafla — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Italian: caraffa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Japanese: カラフ (karafu) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Japanese: 水差し (mizusashi) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Kazakh: графин (grafin) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Kyrgyz: графин (grafin) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Latvian: karafe — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Luxembourgish: Karaff — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Norwegian Bokmål: karaffel — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karaffel — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Persian: تنگ (tong) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Persian: قرابه (qarâbe) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Persian: صراحی (sorâhi) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Polish: karafka — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Portuguese: jarro — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Romanian: carafă — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Russian: графи́н (grafín) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Slovak: karafa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Spanish: jarra — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Spanish: garrafa — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Swedish: karaff — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Swedish: kanna — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Turkish: sürahi — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Ottoman Turkish: صراحی (sürâhi) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Ukrainian: кара́фа (karáfa) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Ukrainian: графи́н (hrafýn) — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Uzbek: grafin — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Volapük: karaf — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Welsh: caráff — bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
• Hungarian: kávékiöntő — glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for coffee