kavé

Kávé is the Hungarian word for coffee, the hot beverage prepared from roasted coffee beans. It is a common everyday drink in Hungary and across Hungarian-speaking communities, and appears in many compounds and expressions such as fekete kávé (black coffee), tejeskávé (coffee with milk), kávézó and kávéház (coffee house), and kávéfogyasztás (coffee consumption).

Etymology and orthography: The term is a loanword in Hungarian, most commonly traced to the German Kaffee, with potential influence from Turkish kahve and ultimately from Arabic qahwa. The modern Hungarian form kávé reflects standard orthography, with the acute accents on á and é indicating vowel length and pronunciation. In commonplace writing, the word is always written with those diacritics in Hungarian.

Usage notes: Beyond the beverage, kávé can describe the act of drinking coffee and is used in a variety of contexts from everyday conversation to media and literature. It is not a proper noun. In Hungarian, the standard spelling is kávé; the form without diacritics (kave) generally appears only in non-Hungarian texts or where diacritics are omitted.