mocha

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See also: Mocha, mòchá, and mǒchá

English

A caffè mocha (1).

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as 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

Noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

  1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
    Synonyms: café mocha, caffè mocha, mochaccino
  2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
    mocha fudge
  3. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
    mocha:  
  4. A strong Arabian coffee.
  5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
  6. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

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Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

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

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Irish

Pronunciation

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

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mocha mhocha not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.xa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Noun

mocha m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -otʃa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Adjective

mocha f sg

  1. feminine singular of mocho

Verb

mocha

  1. inflection of mochar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Upper Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔxa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxa
  • Syllabification: mo‧cha

Noun

mocha

  1. genitive singular of moch