Ah, coffee, the language of love. To me, there is nothing like waking up to the inviting aromas of a freshly brewed cup of coffee. Just that smell alone puts a smile on my face, let alone savoring that first sip that transports you to a different world where anything is possible, and gets you ready to conquer your day.

In honor of International Coffee Day, which is today, and since tomorrow is International Translation Day, how about we look at the word “coffee” in different languages?

Interestingly enough, the word “coffee” in Arabic is not the same as the “coffee bean”, whereas the latter is “بنّ” (pronounced Bann – with an emphasis on the “n”), as opposed to “قهوة” which translates to the coffee drink.

Below is a list of the word “coffee” in different languages:

Different Languages	Word Coffee
Albanian	kafe
Basque	kafea
Belarusian	кава
Bosnian	kafa
Bulgarian	кафе
Catalan	cafè
Croatian	kava
Czech	káva
Danish	kaffe
Dutch	koffie

Armenian	սուրճ
Azerbaijani	qəhvə
Bengali	কফি
Chinese Simplified	咖啡 [kāfēi]
Chinese Traditional	咖啡 [kāfēi]
Georgian	ყავა
Gujarati	કોફી
Hindi	कॉफ़ी
Hmong	kas fes
Japanese	コーヒー

Arabic

قهوة [qahua]

Cebuano	kape
Filipino	kape
Hawaiian	kope
Indonesian	kope
Javanese	warung
Malagasy	kafe
Malay	kopi
Maori	kawhe
Samoan	kofe
Sundanese	kopi

Afrikaans	koffie
Amharic	ቡና
Chichewa	khofi
Hausa	kofi
Igbo	kọfị
Kinyarwanda	ikawa
Sesotho	kofi
Shona	kofi
Somali	kafeega
Swahili	kahawa

Esperanto	kafo
Haitian Creole	kafe
Latin	capulus

Dutch	koffie
Estonian	kohv
Finnish	kahvi
French	café
Frisian	kofje
Galician	café
German	Kaffee
Greek	καφές [kafés]
Hungarian	kávé
Icelandic	Kaffi

Latvian	kafija
Lithuanian	kava
Macedonian	кафе
Maltese	kafè
Norwegian	kaffe
Polish	Kawa
Portuguese	café
Romanian	cafea
Russian	кофе (kofe)
Serbian	кафа (kafa)

Did you get your coffee today? Do you prefer hot or iced coffee? Let me know in the comments!