Meanings
nouncafetière (plural cafetières)
plural cafetières
- A cylindrical glass or metal jug, fitted with a filter on a rod, used to make coffee.
Synonyms: French press, press pot, coffee plunger
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA cylindrical glass or metal jug, fitted with a filter on a rod, used to make coffee.
Origin
- Arabicقَهْوَة (qahwa)
- Ottoman Turkishقهوه (kahve)
- Italiancaffè
- Frenchcafé
- Frenchcafetière
- Englishcafetière
Borrowed from French cafetière.
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Chinese Mandarin 咖啡濾壓壺 /咖啡滤压壶, 法壓壺 /法压壶
- 咖啡濾壓壺 /咖啡滤压壶 (kāfēi lǜyāhú)cylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
- 法壓壺 /法压壶 (Fǎyāhú)cylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
Finnish pressopannu
- pressopannucylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
French cafetière à piston
- cafetière à pistoncylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
German Kaffeepresse, Pressstempelkanne
- Kaffeepressecylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
- Pressstempelkannecylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
Icelandic stimpilkanna, pressukanna
- stimpilkannacylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
- pressukannacylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
Malay teko penapis kopi
- teko penapis kopicylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
Persian فرنچ پرس
- فرنچ پرس (ferenč peres)cylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
Polish zaparzacz
- zaparzaczcylindrical glass jug used to make coffee
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