thumb|Turkish coffee being poured from a copper

A (, ; ; ), also / (), (), rakwa (Arabic: ركوة), ghallaya (Arabic: غلاية), or kanaka (Arabic: كَنَكَة), is a small long-handled pot with a pouring lip designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. It is traditionally made of brass or copper, occasionally also silver or gold. In more recent times are also made from stainless steel, aluminium, or ceramics.

Name

The name is of Turkish origin, where it is a borrowing from ( or , meaning 'ember').

The is also known as an , a Turkish word from Arabic (). This term was loaned from medieval Eastern Aramaic forms in , and originated in New Persian (cf. Farsi ), from Middle Persian , ultimately from Old Persian 'water' + 'pour' (New Persian []).

Other variants are ghallaya, briki, rakwa, () in Russian and kanaka.

Variations

In Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the is a long-necked coffee pot. In Turkish an is not a coffee pot, but simply a pitcher or ewer.

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File:Bakırcezve-fincan.jpg|Copper with Turkish coffee pouring out

File:Mocca2.JPG|Utensils to prepare Turkish coffee (handmade from Crete). A is at the bottom.

File:Turska kava.jpg|Turkish coffee set containing a cup of coffee, a and a sugar bowl

File:Coffee Souq Waqif Doha.jpg|A brass cezve

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See also

  • Dallah (Arabic coffee pot)
  • Jebena (Ethiopian coffee pot)
  • Arabic coffee
  • Turkish coffee
  • List of cooking vessels

References

Sources

  • alt.coffee thread archive regarding cezve word origin
  • Comech's cezve page at tamu.edu