mocha

See also: mǒchá

English

A caffè mocha.

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا‎ (al-muḵā), due to its being 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; a caffè mocha
    Synonyms: caffè mocha, mochaccino
  2. a strong Arabian coffee
  3. a coffee and chocolate mixed flavour
  4. a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee
    mocha colour:  
  5. (historical) an Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain

Translations

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

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

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmˠɔxə]

Adjective

mocha

  1. nominative and vocative and strong genitive and dative 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.

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/

Adjective

mocha f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective mocho.
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