arabica

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English

Coffea arabica

Etymology

See Wikipedia at Coffea arabica § Taxonomy and § History; Europeans learned of coffee from Arab peoples.

Pronunciation

Noun

arabica (usually uncountable, plural arabicas)

  1. A species of coffee plant, Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia.
  2. The bean of this plant.
    Coordinate term: robusta
    • 2015 May 1, Sam Jones, “Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant”, in The Guardian:
      Arabica, which has long been prized for its delicate and aromatic flavour, accounts for 70% of the global coffee market share. But it is particularly sensitive to temperature increases, which reduce its growth, flowering and fruiting and make it more susceptible to coffee pests.
  3. Coffee made from these coffee beans.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʁa.bi.ka/
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Noun

arabica m (plural arabicas)

  1. arabica (coffee)

Italian

Adjective

arabica f

  1. feminine singular of arabico (Arabian)

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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

arabica

  1. inflection of arabicus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

arabicā

  1. ablative feminine singular of arabicus

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arǎbit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: a‧ra‧bi‧ca

Noun

aràbica f (Cyrillic spelling ара̀бица)

  1. A form of the Perso-Arabic script once used to write Serbo-Croatian.

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Slovene

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Noun

arabica f

  1. Arebica, the form of the Perso-Arabic script once used to write Bosnian.

Inflection

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Feminine, a-stem
nominative arábica
genitive arábice
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
arábica
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
arábice
dative
(dajȃlnik)
arábici
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
arábico
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
arábici
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
arábico