mocha

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊkə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Rhymes: -əʊkə
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒkə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkə

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.

Adjective

mocha (not comparable)

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

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• caffè mocha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mocha coffee bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “mocha”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• macho, Choma, MACHO

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmˠɔxə]

Adjective

mocha

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of moch (“early”)

Noun

mocha f (genitive singular mocha)

1. Alternative form of moiche (“earliness”)

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mocha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mocha m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of moch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmot͡ʃa/ [ˈmo.t͡ʃa]
• 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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mocha

1. genitive singular of moch