Cezve
A cezve is a pot designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. The body and handle are traditionally made of brass or copper, occasionally also silver or gold. Though, recently, cezveler are also made from stainless steel, aluminium, or ceramics. The long handle is particularly useful to avoid burning one's hands, and the brim is designed to serve the coffee.
Name
The name cezve is of Turkish origin, where it is a borrowing from Arabic: جذوة (jadhwa).
Other regional variations of the word cezve are jezve, čezve, and xhezve. In Ukrainian and Russian, the word is spelled джезва (where it exists alongside турка, IPA: [ˈturkə]). In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, it is a long-necked coffee pot, spelled džezva.
Other names
- In Greece, the device is called briki (Greek: μπρίκι), a borrowed word from the Ottoman Turks. The Greek name is also used in English-speaking countries[citation needed] such as the United States and Australia because of their large Greek diasporic populations.
- In Macedonian: ѓезве (ǵezve)
- In Armenian: Ջազվա (jazva)
- In Serbo-Croatian: džezva, џезва
- In Bulgarian: джезве (IPA: [dʑɛzvɛ])
- In Cypriot Greek: τζιζβές (IPA: [dz̺ɛzˈvɛ]) or τζουζβές (IPA: [dz̺uzˈvɛ])
- In Israel, the vessel is commonly known as a finjan (Hebrew: פינג'אן, IPA: [findʑan]), a name derived from the Arabic term for a small serving cup.
- In Kosovo and Albania: xhezve; coffee made in this manner is very popular there.
- In Levantine Arabic: rakwa[1][2]
- In Tunisian Arabic: zezwa
- In Egyptian Arabic: kanaka
- In Palestinian Arabic: ghallāye
- In Poland, it is known as a dżezwa, though the word is not widespread. Recently the word findżan is also in use in some cafés.
- In Russian: турка, (IPA: [ˈturkə])
- In Ukrainian: джезва
- In Belarusian: джэзва
- In Romanian: ibric
- In the rest of the world, the cezve is known as an ibrik, which is also its most common name in the United States, just like in Romania. Ibrik is a Turkish word from Arabic ʿibrīq, in turn a rendition of Middle Persian ābrīz, from āb ("water") and riz ("cup").[3] In Turkey, ibrik has another meaning: it is used for long spouts but for handling liquids like oil and wine, not brewing coffee.
Gallery
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Copper cezve with Turkish coffee pouring out. -
Utensils to prepare Turkish coffee (handmade from Crete). A cezve is at the bottom.
See also
- Dallah (Arabic coffee pot)
- Jebena (Ethiopian coffee pot)
- Arabic coffee
- Turkish coffee
- List of cooking vessels
References
- ^ Shadid, Anthony (2012). House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-547-13466-5.
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- ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1992). A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary: Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be Met with in Persian Literature, Being, Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, Revised, Enlarged, and Entirely Reconstructed. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 978-81-206-0670-8.
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Sources
- alt.coffee thread archive regarding cezve word origin
- Comech's cezve page at tamu.edu
- The Making of the Copper "Cezve" Turkish Coffee Pot, Bakır Cezve Yapımı (video)
