3/12/2011

Words for Coffee Around the World How to Say Coffee in Over 60 Different Languages

I would like to thank the Author Lindsey Goodwin of About.com Guide
"Coffee" In Different Languages
Afrikaans: koffie~Albanian: kafe~Amharic: buna~Arabic: kahioa or ahua
Armenian: surch or sourdj~Basque: kafea or akeuta~Belarusian: kava
Bengali/Bangla: café~Bulgarian: kafe~Catalan: cafe~Chinese (Cantonese): ga feh
Chinese (Mandarin): kafei~Creole: kafe~Croatian: kava~Czech: kava or kafe
Danish: kaffe~Dutch: koffie~English: coffee~Esperanto: kafo~Estonian: kohv
Ethiopia: bunna, buni or bun~Filipino/Tagalog: kape~Finnish: kahvi~French: café
Galician: café~Georgian: qava or chai~German: Kaffee ~Greek: kafés
Haitian Creole: kafe~Hawaiian: kope~Hebrew: ka-feh~Hindi: kofi~Hungarian: kavé
Irish: caife~Italian: caffe~Icelandic: kaffii~Indonesian: kopi~Japanese: koohii
Korean: keopi or ko-pyi~Latvian: kafija~Lithuanian: kava~Luxembourgish: Kaffi
Macedonian: kafe~Malay: kawah or koppi~Maltese: kafe~Norwegian: kaffe
Persian: qéhvé~Polish: kawa~Portuguese: café~Romanian: cafea~Russian: kofe
Serbian: kafa~Slovak: kava~Slovenian: kave~Spanish: el café~
Sinhalese (Sri Lanka): kopi~Swahili: kahawa~Swedish: kaffe~Taiwanese: ka fei
Tamil (Sri Lanka): kapi-kottai or kopi~Thai: kafea or ca-fea~Turkish: kahve
Ukrainian: kavy or kava~Urdu: coffee~Vietnamese: ca phe~Wolof: kafe~Welsh: coffi
Yiddish: kave~Zulu: ikhofi

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