caf

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See also: caff and CAF

Translingual

Symbol

caf

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Carrier.

See also

English

Alternative forms

  • (café, cafeteria): caff

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

Noun

caf (countable and uncountable, plural cafs)

  1. (countable, informal) A café.
    • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
      Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.
  2. (countable, informal) A cafeteria.
    • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
      There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.
    • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:
      Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
    • 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:
      One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A caffeinated coffee.
    Coordinate term: decaf
    • 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:
      If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.

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Middle English

Noun

caf

  1. Alternative form of chaf

Northern Tujia

Pronunciation

Adjective

caf

  1. good

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (strong, lively, brave).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cāf

  1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
  2. bold, brave

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove

Volapük

Pronunciation

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

  1. kettle

Declension

Declension of caf
singular plural
nominative caf cafs
genitive cafa cafas
dative cafe cafes
accusative cafi cafis
vocative 1 o caf! o cafs!
predicative 2 cafu cafus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • ca (colloquial)

Pronunciation

Verb

caf

  1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael

Mutation

Mutated forms of caf
radical soft nasal aspirate
caf gaf nghaf chaf

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.