adj · name · noun · verb · 17 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈkɒfi/
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/ˈkɔːfɪ/conservative RP
/ˈkɔfi/General American, without the cot–caught merger, lot–cloth split
any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coffee tree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tree
Narrower terms: Arabian coffee, Coffea arabica, Liberian coffee, Coffea liberica, robusta coffee, Rio Nunez coffee, Coffea robusta, Coffea canephora
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Across languages
Translations
654 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Armenian:
սրճագույն
(srčaguyn)
— of a pale brown colour
Catalan:
cafè
— of a pale brown colour
Catalan:
marró
— of a pale brown colour
Chinese Mandarin:
咖啡色
(kāfēisè)
— of a pale brown colour
Dutch:
mokka
— of a pale brown colour
Dutch:
koffiebruin
— of a pale brown colour
Estonian:
kohvikarva
— of a pale brown colour
Estonian:
kohvipruun
— of a pale brown colour
Finnish:
kahvinruskea
— of a pale brown colour
French:
café
— of a pale brown colour
German:
kaffeebraun
— of a pale brown colour
German:
kaffeefarben
— of a pale brown colour
German:
kaffeefarbig
— of a pale brown colour
Hebrew:
קפה
(qafé)
— of a pale brown colour
Hungarian:
kávébarna
— of a pale brown colour
Icelandic:
kaffibrúnn
— of a pale brown colour
Italian:
marrone
— of a pale brown colour
Japanese:
コーヒー色の
— of a pale brown colour
Japanese:
珈琲色の
(kōhī-iro no)
— of a pale brown colour
Central Kurdish:
قاوەیی
(qaweyî)
— of a pale brown colour
Malay:
kopi
— of a pale brown colour
Persian:
قهوهای
— of a pale brown colour
Polish:
kawowy
— of a pale brown colour
Portuguese:
café
— of a pale brown colour
Russian:
кофейный
(kofejnyj)
— of a pale brown colour