different between carob vs cocoa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic ???????? (?arr?b), from Classical Syriac ?????? (?arr???).

Noun

carob (countable and uncountable, plural carobs)

1. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.

   Synonym: St. John's bread

2. The fruit of that tree.

   Meronym: locust bean

3. A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.

Translations

Further reading

• Ceratonia siliqua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barco, COBRA, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, coarb, cobra

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.k??/
• (US) enPR: k??k?, IPA^(key): /?ko?.ko?/
• Rhymes: -??k??
• Homophone: coco

Etymology 1

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.

Noun

cocoa (countable and uncountable, plural cocoas)

1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
3. (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
   • 1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)

     Half past nine - high time for supper;

     Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.

     Helen thinks it quite delicious,

     John prefers it now to beer....

     ¶For they've stumbled on the secret

     Of a love that never wanes,

     Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,

     Cocoa coursing through their veins.

4. (countable) A serving of this drink.

5. (countable) A light to medium brown colour.

Synonyms

• (hot drink): chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate

Derived terms

• cocoa bean
• cocoa butter
• cocoa-payol
• cocoa powder

Related terms

• cacao

Translations

Adjective

cocoa (not comparable)

1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Noun

cocoa

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of coco.

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cocohua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koko(w)a/

Verb

cocoa

1. (transitive) To hurt.
2. (reflexive) To be ill.

Related terms

• cocoya

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz?^[1], 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 87, 119, 231, 242

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?koa/, [ko?ko.a]

Noun

cocoa f (plural cocoas)

1. cocoa