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• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑː.və/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.^[1]

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

1. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
2. (US, colloquial) Coffee in general.
   • 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:

     45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.

• Java

Borrowed from French java.

java (plural javas)

1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.
   • 2015, Luc Sante, The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past‎^[2], Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.

• Java (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

java f

1. definite of javë

Inherited from Arabic جَوَّة (jawwa).

java

1. inside; at home

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 189

• jabu

• IPA^(key): /tʃava/

java (Inland)

1. sunshine

• Kari, James (2013), Denaʼina Topical Dictionary, Revised Edition, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 150

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• IPA^(key): /ʒa.va/

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java f (plural javas)

1. (dance) a popular dance developed in 1920s Paris
   • 1936, “La java de Cézigue”, performed by Edith Piaf:

     On vous corne dans les oreilles / Que les javas sont toutes pareilles / Et ben ceux qui disent ça / C'est qu'ils connaissent pas / Cézigue et sa java. Hop !

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• faire la java

• “java”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• java (danse) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Lexicalization of the jav- stem variant of the adjective jó (“good”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɒvɒ]
• Hyphenation: ja‧va
• Rhymes: -vɒ

java (uncountable)

1. (with a possessive suffix) the best (part) (the best or most important part of something)

   Synonym: legjava

   A java még hátravan! ― The best (part) is yet to come!

2. (with a possessive suffix) someone’s benefit, advantage, interest

   Ez az ő javát szolgálja. ― This is for his/her own good. (literally, “…serves…”)

• java , redirecting to certain senses of jó in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

java f (4th declension)

1. (construction) mortar (building material)

Inherited from Sanskrit जव (java).

java m

1. speed
2. strength

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “java”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

From jȃv. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /jǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: ja‧va

jáva f (Cyrillic spelling ја́ва)

1. reality
2. The state opposite of the sleeping or dreaming state, wakefulness.

• jȃv

• “java”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026