kafana
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English
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Noun
kafana (plural kafanas)
- A tavern-cum-restaurant-cum-shop in various Balkan states
- 2023 November 22, Camilla Bell-Davies, “‘People dance on tables’: welcome to Belgrade’s kafana pub culture”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-11-22, Travel:
- Kafanas are Serbia’s tavernas: a restaurant, pub and music venue operating from morning to late night. Regulars come for a lively breakfast before work, families throw weddings and celebrations here, business deals are cut and sorrow drowned in dark corners. They were so central to people’s daily lives that friends and the postman would come to find you at your local kafana, not your home.
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قهوهخانه (kahvehâne), from Persian قهوهخانه (qahve-xâne).
Pronunciation
Noun
kafàna f (Cyrillic spelling кафа̀на)
Declension
Declension of kafana
Further reading
- “kafana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024