different between mocha vs moocha

English

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic ?????????? (al-mu??), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo?k?/
  • Rhymes: -??k?
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?m?k?/
  • Rhymes: -?k?

Noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.

   Synonyms: caffè mocha, mochaccino

2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.

3. (color) A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

4. A strong Arabian coffee.
5. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Related terms

• mochaccino

Translations

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• caffè mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mocha coffee bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MACHO, macho

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??x?]

Adjective

mocha

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of moch (“early”)

Noun

mocha f (genitive singular mocha)

1. Alternative form of moiche (“earliness”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "mocha" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.xa/

Noun

mocha m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mot??a/, [?mo.t??a]

Adjective

mocha f sg

1. feminine singular of mocho

English

Etymology

From Zulu unmutsha.

Noun

moocha (plural moochas)

1. A loincloth made from animals' tails or strips of skin; part of the traditional dress of Zulu males.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company (1907), page 48:

     Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealing himself naked except for the moocha round his centre and a necklace of lions' claws.

Anagrams

• moocah