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 coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
    mocha fudge
  3. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
    mocha colour:  
  4. A strong Arabian coffee.
  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
Declension of mocha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative mocha
Vocative a mhocha
Genitive mocha
Dative mocha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an mhocha
Genitive na mocha
Dative leis an mocha

don mhocha

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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