กาแฟ

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from French café, borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, coffee). Cognate with Lao ກາເຟ (kā fē).

Pronunciation

Orthographicกาแฟ
k ā æ v
Phonemic
กา-แฟ
k ā – æ v
RomanizationPaiboongaa-fɛɛ
Royal Instituteka-fae
(standard) IPA(key)/kaː˧.fɛː˧/(R)

Noun

กาแฟ • (gaa-fɛɛ)

  1. coffee (beverage, tree, bean, or color).

Derived terms

Further reading

  • กาแฟ” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.