different between kava vs java

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)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.v?/

Etymology 1

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

Noun

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

1. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
2. (US, colloquial) Coffee in general.

Related terms

• Java

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French java.

Noun

java (plural javas)

1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

Further reading

• Java (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Albanian

Noun

java f

1. definite of javë

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va/

Noun

java f (plural javas)

1. (dance) a popular dance developed in 1920s Paris

Derived terms

• faire la java

Further reading

• java (danse) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the jav- stem variant of the adjective jó (“good”) +? -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?j?v?]
• Hyphenation: ja?va
• Rhymes: -v?

Noun

java (uncountable)

1. the best (part) (the best or most important part of something)

2. someone's benefit, advantage, interest

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• java , redirecting to certain senses of jó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latvian

Noun

java f (4th declension)

1. (construction) mortar (building material)

Declension

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (java).

Noun

java m

1. speed
2. strength

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From j?v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j???a/
• Hyphenation: ja?va

Noun

jáva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. reality
2. the state opposite of the sleeping or dreaming state, wakefulness

Declension

Related terms

• j?v

References

• “java” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal