Turkish coffee

See also: turkish coffee

English[edit]

Turkish coffee (countable and uncountable, plural Turkish coffees)

Coffee prepared by boiling finely powdered roast coffee beans in a pot, possibly with sugar, and serving it into a cup, where the dregs settle.
- 1881, Francis Beatty Thurber, Coffee; from Plantation to Cup, New York: American Grocer Publishing Association, page 35:
  When a cup of coffee is wanted, the requisite amount of finely powdered coffee is measured into one of these little coffee-pots; water enough to fill the pot is poured in, and it is set upon live coals, until it heats up to just the boiling point. It is then, without straining or otherwise settling the grounds, poured out into a tiny cup, and this is Turkish coffee.
- 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
  Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.

type of coffee

Armenian: սուրճ (hy) (surč), արեւելյան սուրճ (arewelyan surč)
Azerbaijani: Türk qəhvəsi
Czech: turecká káva f
Finnish: turkkilainen kahvi
French: café turc (fr) m
Galician: café turco (gl)
German: Mokka (de) m
Greek: Τουρκικός καφές (Tourkikós kafés), Ελληνικός καφές (Ellinikós kafés)
Hebrew: קָפֶה טוּרְקִי (he) m (qafé turqí)
Hungarian: török kávé (hu)
Italian: caffè turco
Macedonian: турско кафе n (tursko kafe)
Persian: قهوه ترک (qahve-ye tork), قهوه عربی (qahve-ye 'arabi)
Polish: kawa po turecku (pl) f
Portuguese: café turco m
Punjabi: ਤੁਰਕੀ ਕੌਫੀ f (turkī kauphī)
Romanian: cafea turcească (ro) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: turska kafa f (Serbia), turska kava (Croatia), turska kahva (Bosnia)
Spanish: café turco m
Turkish: Türk kahvesi (tr)