Coffee
Coffee is a beverage made from seeds. It can be made by boiling, simmering, or infusing and paired with sugar, milk, or cream. Coffee is sold canned or as a powder.
- Category
- Drinks
- Part used
- Seed
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Cooked most in
- Asia
- Top country
- Iran
- Dishes
- 2 in the catalogue

Photo: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use coffee
Shopping
Choosing and storing coffee
- Sold as
- Canned, Powder
Around the world
Where coffee is cooked
Dishes by continent
- Asia1
Countries whose dishes use it most
Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list coffee among their ingredients.
Origins
1600 · Italy
Coffee had reached Italy by 1600.
1657 · France
Coffee was introduced to France in 1657.
1727 · Brazil
Coffee was introduced to Brazil in 1727.
On the table
Dishes made with coffee
Sholezard
Iran
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include coffee.
Around the world
What coffee is called
Spanish
café · cafe
French
café
Italian
caffè · espresso
Portuguese
café
German
Kaffee · Caffee · Bohnenkaffee · Röstkaffee
Dutch
koffie
Greek
καφές
Turkish
kahve
Russian
кофе
Polish
kawa
Arabic
قهوة
Persian
قهوه
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Abkhazian
акаҳуа
acm
گهوة
Afar
buna · buun
Afrikaans
koffie · boeretroos
Akan
kofe
Albanian
kafeja
Algerian Arabic
قهوة
Amharic
ቡና
Angika
कॉफी
apc
قهوة
Aragonese
café
Armenian
սուրճ
Aromanian
cafe
Assamese
কফি
Asturian
café
Atikamekw
kapi
Avaric
къагьва · кофе
Awadhi
कफी
azb
قهوه
Azerbaijani
qəhvə
Balinese
kopi
Bambara
kafe
Bangla
কফি
Banjar
kupi
Bashkir
ҡәһүә · кофе
Basque
kafe
Bavarian
Kafää
bdr
kupi'
Belarusian
кава
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
кава
Betawi
gahwa
Bikol
kape
Bislama
kofi
Bosnian
kafa · kahva
Brazilian Portuguese
café
Breton
kafe
Bulgarian
кафе
Buriat
кофе
Burmese
ကော်ဖီ
Cantonese
咖啡
Catalan
cafè
cdo
gă-pĭ
Cebuano
kapi
Central Dusun
kupi
Central Kurdish
قاوە
Chamorro
café
Chechen
къахьо
Cherokee
ᎧᏫ
Cheyenne
mo'ôhtávêhohpe
Chinese
咖啡
Choctaw
kʋfi
Chuvash
кофе
Cornish
koffi
Corsican
caffè
Crimean Tatar
qave
Crimean Tatar (Latin)
qave
Croatian
kava
Czech
káva · kafe
dag
tii
Danish
kaffe
Divehi
ގަހުވަ · ކޮފީ
dty
कफी
Dzongkha
ཀཱ་ཕི།
Egyptian Arabic
قهوه
Emilian
cafa
Erzya
кофе
Esperanto
kafo
Estonian
kohv
Extremaduran
sidru · café
Faroese
kaffi
Fiji Hindi
coffee
Fijian
kofe · kofi
Filipino
kape · Jupiter · Shashakarinz
Finnish
kahvi
Friulian
cafè
Fula
kofi
Galician
café
Gan Chinese
咖啡
gcr
kafé
Georgian
ყავა
Gothic
𐌺𐌰𐍈𐌰
Guarani
taperyva rykue
Gujarati
કૉફી · કહવા
Haitian Creole
kafe
Hakka Chinese
kâ-pî
Hawaiian
kofe
Hebrew
קפה
Herero
ozo-mbonde
Hiligaynon
kapé
Hindi
कॉफ़ी · क़हवा · कहवा · कॉफी
Hungarian
kávé
hyw
սուրճ
Iban
kupi
Icelandic
kaffi
Ido
kafeo
Igbo
kọfị
Iloko
kape
Inari Sami
kähvi
Indonesian
kopi · kopi (minuman)
Ingush
кофи
Interlingua
caffe
Interlingue
café
Inuktitut
ᑳᐱ · kaapi
Inupiaq
kuukpiaq
Irish
caife
Jamaican Creole English
kaafi
Japanese
コーヒー · 珈琲
Javanese
kopi
Jju
Coffee
Kabardian
къэхьэуэ
Kabyle
taɣlust · lqahwa
Kalaallisut
kaffi
Kalmyk
кофе
Kannada
ಕಾಫಿ
Kanuri
kófì
Kara-Kalpak
Kofe
Karachay-Balkar
кофе
Kashmiri
کافی
Kashubian
kawa
Kazakh
кофе
kbp
kɔfɩ
kge
kopi
Khmer
កាហ្វេ
Kinyarwanda
ikawa
Kongo
káfé
Korean
커피 · 양탕 · 양탕국
Kuanyama
okofi
Kurdish
qehwe
Kyrgyz
кофе
Ladino
kavé
Lao
ກາເຟ
Latin
coffeum
Latvian
kafija
Lezghian
къагьве
Ligurian
caffè
Limburgish
kóffe
Lingala
kafé · káwa · kawa
Lingua Franca Nova
cafe
Literary Chinese
咖啡
Lithuanian
kava
Lojban
ckafi
Lombard
cafè · café
Low German
Kaffe
Low Saxon
koffie
Lower Sorbian
kafej
Lozi
kofi
Lule Sami
káffa
Luxembourgish
Kaffi
Macedonian
кафе
Madurese
kopi
Maithili
कफी
Malagasy
kafe · kaoatry
Malay
kopi · kahwa · kahua · kofi
Malay (Arabic)
کوڤي · قهوا
Malayalam
കാപ്പി
Maltese
kafè
Māori
kawhe
Marathi
कॉफी
Mari
кофе
Min Nan Chinese
ka-pi
Minangkabau
kopi
Mingrelian
ყავა
Mirandese
café
Moksha
кофе
Mongolian
кофе
Moroccan Arabic
قهوة
nah
cafēn · cafentzin
Navajo
ahwééh · gohwééh
Ndonga
okoofi
Neapolitan
ccafè
Nepali
कफी
Nias
kofi
Niuean
kofe
Northern Frisian
Kofe
Northern Sami
gáffe · káffe
Norwegian Bokmål
kaffe
Norwegian Nynorsk
kaffi
nrm
café
Nyanja
kofi
Obolo
kọ̀fi
Occitan
cafè
Odia
କଫି
Old English
caffiȝ
olo
koufei
Oromo
buna
Ossetic
къофи
Pampanga
kape
Papiamento
koffie
Pashto
قهوه
Pennsylvania German
Kaffi
Piedmontese
cafè
Plautdietsch
Koffe
Punjabi
ਕੌਫ਼ੀ
Quechua
kaphiy
rmf
kaali
Romanian
cafea
Romansh
café
Romany
kafa
Rusyn
кава
Samoan
kofe
Samogitian
kava
Sango
kâwa · kâfe
Sanskrit
काफीपेयम्
Santali
ᱠᱚᱯᱷᱤ
Sardinian
caffè
Sassarese Sardinian
caffè
Saterland Frisian
Kafe
Scots
coffee
Scottish Gaelic
cofaidh
Serbian
кафа
Serbian (Latin)
kava
Seri
cafée · xica coopol
Shan
ၵေႃႇၾီႇ
Shona
kofi
Sicilian
cafè
Silesian
kafyj
Simplified Chinese
咖啡
Simplified Chinese (China)
咖啡
Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)
咖啡
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
咖啡
Sindhi
قهوو · ڪافي
Sinhala
කෝපි
sjd
ка̄фэ · кофэ
Skolt Sami
kååʹff · kaaʹff
Slovak
káva
Slovenian
kava · kafe · kofe
Somali
bun
Southern Sami
prïhtjege
Sranan Tongo
kofi
Sundanese
kopi
Swahili
kahawa
Swedish
kaffe
Swiss German
Kaffi · Kaffee
szy
kuhi
Tachelhit
l-qhwa
Tajik
қаҳва
Tamil
காப்பி · குளம்பி
Tatar
каһвә
Telugu
కాఫీ
Tetum
kafé
Thai
กาแฟ · โกปี้
Tibetan
ཁོ་ཧྥེ།
Tigrinya
ቡን
Tok Pisin
kopi
Toki Pona
telo wawa pimeja · telo pimeja
Traditional Chinese
咖啡
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
咖啡
Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)
咖啡
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
咖啡
Turkmen
kofe
Tuvinian
кофе
Udmurt
кофе
Ukrainian
кава
Upper Sorbian
kofej
Urdu
کافی
Uyghur
قەھۋە
Uzbek
qahva
Venetian
cafè
Veps
kofe
Vietnamese
cà phê
Volapük
kaf
Võro
kohv
Walloon
cafè
Waray
kape
Wayuu
kepein
Welsh
coffi
West Flemish
kaffie
Western Frisian
kofje
Western Panjabi
کافی (مشروب)
Wolof
kafe
Wu Chinese
咖啡
Wu Chinese (Simplified)
咖啡
Xhosa
ikofu
Yakut
кофе
Yiddish
קאווע
Yoruba
kofi · ohun mímu
Zeelandic
koffie
Zhuang
gahfeih
Zulu
ikhofi
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
- Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata item: Q8486
Photos
Photo: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons