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English

Etymology

From Tongan kava, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *kawa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??.v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

kava (countable and uncountable, plural kavas)

1. A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
2. An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

Translations

Alternative forms

• ava
• yava

Esperanto

Etymology

From kavo (“cave, cavity, hollow, pit”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kava/
• Hyphenation: ka?va

Adjective

kava (accusative singular kavan, plural kavaj, accusative plural kavajn)

1. hollow, concave

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??a?va/
• Rhymes: -?a?va
• Homophone: kavað

Verb

kava (third person singular past indicative kavaði, third person plural past indicative kavaðu, supine kavað)

1. to snow
2. to dive

Conjugation

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k???/, [?k???]
• Rhymes: -???
• Syllabification: ka?va

Noun

kava

1. A spokeshave.

Declension

Synonyms

• kavahöylä

Anagrams

• vaka

Ido

Adjective

kava

1. sunken, hollow

Derived terms

• kavajo

Italian

Noun

kava f (plural kave)

1. kava

   Synonym: cava

Japanese

Romanization

kava

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lithuanian

Noun

kava f

1. coffee

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

kava

1. simple past and past participle of kave

Alternative forms

• kavet
• kavde (simple past)
• kavd (past participle)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kafa.

Alternative forms

• kave (e infinitive)

Verb

kava (present tense kavar, past tense kava, past participle kava, passive infinitive kavast, present participle kavande, imperative kav)

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kava n

1. definite plural of kav

References

• “kava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??a/
• Hyphenation: ka?va

Noun

kàva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. coffee

Declension

Synonyms

• kafa
• kahva

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kà??a/

Noun

káva f

1. coffee (beverage)

Inflection

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.va/

Adjective

kava

1. bitter

Noun

kava

1. kava

Descendants

• ? English: kava
• ? Italian: kava
• ? Japanese: ??? (kava)

English

Etymology 1

Noun

cava (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine

Etymology 2

Noun

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

1. (anatomy) The vena cava.

Etymology 3

Noun

cava

1. plural of cavum

Anagrams

• AACV, Vaca, vaca

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cavus (“hollow, concave”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.va/

Noun

cava f (plural caves)

1. wine cellar
2. cigar box

Noun

cava m (plural caves)

1. cava (wine)

Further reading

• “cava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cava” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Fijian

Pronoun

cava

1. what

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

cava f sg

1. feminine singular of cavo

Etymology 2

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Noun

cava f (plural cave)

1. quarry, mine

Etymology 3

Verb

cava

1. third-person singular present of cavare
2. second-person singular imperative of cavare

Anagrams

• vaca

Latin

Adjective

cava

1. nominative feminine singular of cavus
2. nominative neuter plural of cavus
3. accusative neuter plural of cavus
4. vocative feminine singular of cavus
5. vocative neuter plural of cavus

Adjective

cav?

1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Verb

cav?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cav?

References

• cava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Occitan

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cellar

Further reading

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 44.

Portuguese

Etymology

Either derived regressively from cavar, or from Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• Rhymes: -av?

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. armhole (hole for the arm in clothing)
2. pit (hole dug in the ground)

   Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco

3. Short for veia cava (“large vein”).

Verb

cava

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cavar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cavar

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Spanish

Etymology 1

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. dig

Etymology 2

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cave or cellar where certain kinds of wines are processed
2. in a palace, a dependency where the water and wine drunk by royalty is looked after

Noun

cava m (plural cavas)

1. sparkling wine

Related terms

• cavar
• caverna
• cavo
• cueva

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cava

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cavar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cavar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cavar.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Anagrams

• vaca