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.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
Translations (4)
fi kahvinruskea (of a brown colour) · cmn 摩卡味的 (of a brown colour) · nl mokka (of a brown colour) · eo mokakolora (of a brown colour)
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.
Meanings
(countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
"Can you hear the kitchen door being opened at this moment or detect the exact aroma of our host's mocha?" he demanded. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
(countable, uncountable) A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate.
mocha brownies
mocha fudge
(countable, uncountable) A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
(countable, uncountable) A strong Arabian coffee.
(countable, uncountable) Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
(countable, historical, uncountable) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
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