Did You Say Coffee?
Have you ever wanted to know how to say coffee in other languages? You might not have ever had that thought, but I did, so I thought I would share. Translating coffee in other languages is actually fairly simple. It basically sounds like “coffee”.
Kencaf Importing and Distributing has a great webpage that provides this information. You can use the link included on their company name to take a look at it more, or you can peruse the list below.
“Coffee” Around the World
- Afrikaans: koffie (Phonate: coffee)
- Albanian: kafe (Phonate: KA-fey)
- Amharic: buna (Phonate: boona)
- Arabic: qahioa, qahua or qahwah
- Armenian: surch (Phonate: suurch) or sourdj
- Basque: kafea or akeuta
- Belarusian: kava
- Bengali/Bangla: café (Phonate: ka-FEY)
- Bulgarian: kafe
- Catalan: cafe
- Chinese (Cantonese): ga feh
- Chinese (Mandarin): kafei
- Creole: kafe
- Croatian: kava
- Czech: kava (Phonate: kaava) or kafe
- Danish: kaffe (Phonate: kah-FEY)
- Dutch: koffie (Phonate: coffee)
- English: coffee
- Esperanto: kafo
- Estonian: kohv
- Ethiopian Semitic (spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea): bunna, buni or bun
- Filipino/Tagalog: kape
- Finnish: kahvi
- French: café
- Galician: café
- Georgian: qava or chai
- German: der Kaffee
- Greek: kafés (Phonate: ka-FACE)
- Haitian Creole: kafe (Phonate: kah-FEY)
- Hawaiian: kope
- Hebrew: ka-feh
- Hindi: kofi (Phonate: KOH-fee)
- Hungarian: kavé (Phonate: KAH-vey)
- Irish: caife
- Italian: caffe (Phonate: KA-fee)
- Icelandic: kaffii
- Indonesian: kopi
- Japanese: koohii
- Korean: keopi or ko-pyi
- Latvian: kafija (Phonate: ka-fee-ya)
- Lithuanian: kava
- Luxembourgish: Kaffi
- Macedonian: kafe
- Malay: kawah or koppi
- Maltese: kafe
- Norwegian: kaffe
- Ojibway (language of the Anishinaabe Native American/Canadian): muckadaymashkikiwabu (“black medicine water)
- Persian: qéhvé
- Polish: kawa (Phonate: kava)
- Portuguese: café
- Romanian: cafea (Phonate: café-ah)
- Russian: kofe (Phonate: koe-fee)
- Serbian: kafa
- Slovak: kava (Phonate: kah-va)
- Slovenian: kave
- Spanish: el café (masculine)
- Sinhalese (Sri Lanka): kopi
- Swahili: kahawa
- Swedish: kaffe
- Taiwanese: ka fei (same as Mandarin)
- Tamil (Sri Lanka): kapi-kottai or kopi
- Thai: kafea or ca-fea
- Turkish: kahve (Phonate: kah-VEY)
- Ukrainian: kavy or kava
- Urdu: coffee
- Vietnamese: ca phe (Phonate: ka FEY) or cafe
- Wolof: kafe
- Welsh: coffi (Phonate: ko-FEE)
- Yiddish: kave
- Zulu: ikhofi