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Webster 1913 Edition

Carafe

‖

Ca-rafe′

,

Noun.

[F.]

A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; – called also

croft

.

Definition 2024

carafe

carafe

English

A carafe (bottle with flared lip)

Noun

carafe ‎(plural carafes)

A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for both serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.

Translations

bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages

Albanian: brokë (sq) f
Arabic: غَرَّافَة f ‎(ḡarrāfa)
Bulgarian: гара́фа f ‎(garáfa)
Catalan: marraixa f, garrafa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 玻璃水瓶 ‎(bōlí shuǐpíng)
Danish: karaffel (da) c
Finnish: karahvi (fi), kannu (fi)
French: carafe (fr) f, carafon (fr) m
German: Karaffe (de) f, Wasserflasche (de) f
Greek: καράφα (el) f ‎(karáfa)
Italian: caraffa f
Japanese: カラフ ‎(karafu), 水差し ‎(みずさし, mizusashi)
Latvian: karafe (lv)

Luxembourgish: Karaff f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: karaffel (no) m

Nynorsk: karaffel m
Persian: تنگ (fa) ‎(tong), قرابه (fa) ‎(qarâbe), صراحی (fa) ‎(sorâhi)
Polish: karafka (pl) f
Portuguese: jarro (pt) m
Russian: графи́н (ru) m ‎(grafín)
Spanish: garrafa (es) f
Swedish: (1) karaff (sv) c, (2) kanna (sv) c
Turkish: sürahi (tr)
Volapük: karaf
Welsh: caráff m

glass pot with a spout for pouring, used for coffee

Hungarian: kávékiöntő

French

Etymology

From Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة ‎(ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ ‎(ḡarafa, “to ladle”).

Noun

carafe f ‎(plural carafes)

carafe