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Have you ever tried to find out how to say "coffee" in different languages? I think that it will be useful for travellers =)
A
Amharic: buna (pronounced boona)
Armenian: surch (pronounced suurch) or sourdj
B
Belarusian: kava
Bulgarian: kafe
C
Chinese (Cantonese): ga feh / Chinese (Mandarin): kafei
Czech: kava (pronounced kaava) or kafe
D
Danish: kaffe (pronounced kah-FEY)
Dutch: koffie (pronounced coffee)
E
English: coffee
F
Filipino/Tagalog: kape
Finnish: kahvi
French: café
G
Georgian: qava or chai
German: der Kaffee (pronounced kah-FEE; masculine; the “K” is capitalized because all German nouns are capitalized)
Greek: kafés (pronounced ka-FACE)
H
Haitian Creole: kafe (pronounced kah-FEY)
Hawaiian: kope
Hindi: kofi (pronounced KOH-fee)
Hungarian: kavé (pronounced KAH-vey)
I
Irish: caife
Italian: caffe (pronounced KA-fee)
Indonesian: kopi
J
Japanese: koohii
K
Korean: keopi or ko-pyi
P
Persian: qéhvé
Polish: kawa (pronounced kava)
Portuguese: café
R
Romanian: cafea (pronounced café-ah)
Russian: kofe (pronounced koe-fee)
S
Spanish: el café (masculine)
Swedish: kaffe
T
Taiwanese: ka fei (same as Mandarin)
Thai: kafea or ca-fea
Turkish: kahve (pronounced kah-VEY)
U
Ukrainian: kavy or kava
W
Welsh: coffi (pronounced ko-FEE)

... who can add smth else?

Thank you for opening a new topic, CoffeeLover! But I doubt there are any words you left for us to post here

It is difficult. Hey, Sancho, please, derrive your list on alphabetic categories. thank you!

Here's what I've found but that was quite difficult: กาแฟ (ka-fe) - Thai

WOW.. I'll need to print that and take with me to all trips. I will now know how to ask for a cup everywhere in the world

CrazyBaby wrote:It is difficult. Hey, Sancho, please, derrive your list on alphabetic categories. thank you!

Hey, CrazyBaby! you are right! It will be more comfortable! I changed it!

Coffee in Afrikaans is koffie.

Coffee in Hebrew is ka-feh.

Coffee in Tagalog (Filipino) is kape.

Coffee in Hebrew is ka-feh.

I guess if you just move the hyphen one space to the right that would be the Canadian way to say it Kaf-eh . Since so many things work there with "eh" added on.

In Swahili you say 'kahawa'. This is mostly in Eastern African countries including Kenya where we have the world's best.

I also saw a guy in the name of "JavaJunkie". Java also means coffee...am not sure the language but i think it is Indian...JavaJunkie to confirm..

You raised a good point, KahawaKenya, about the word Java. I knew it was another word for coffee but does anybody know what is its origin language? Unfortunately, I couldn't find this information.

it's 'káva' in Slovak like kaaava

Really very interesting
With your thread we learnt something different or novel things. Uhmmmmm, I think too much but didn't find different words for coffee. But thinking still going on