java

See also: Java, Jáva, and javā

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑː.və/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.

Related terms

• Java

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French java.

Noun

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.

Further reading

• Java (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Albanian

Noun

java f

1. definite of javë

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French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.va/

• Audio:

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Noun

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 !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• faire la java

Further reading

• java (danse) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

java (uncountable)

1. the best (part) (the best or most important part of something)

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

2. someone's benefit, advantage, interest

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	java	—
accusative	javát	—
dative	javának	—
instrumental	javával	—
causal-final	javáért	—
translative	javává	—
terminative	javáig	—
essive-formal	javaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	javában	—
superessive	javán	—
adessive	javánál	—
illative	javába	—
sublative	javára	—
allative	javához	—
elative	javából	—
delative	javáról	—
ablative	javától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	javáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	javáéi	—

Possessive forms of java
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	javam	—
2nd person sing.	javad	—
3rd person sing.	java	—
1st person plural	javunk	—
2nd person plural	javatok	—
3rd person plural	javuk	—

Derived terms

• javában
• javából
• javára

 

Related terms

• javak
• jó

 

Further reading

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

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Latvian

Noun

java f (4th declension)

1. (construction) mortar (building material)

Declension

Declension of java (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	java	javas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	javu	javas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	javas	javu
dative (datīvs)	javai	javām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	javu	javām
locative (lokatīvs)	javā	javās
vocative (vokatīvs)	java	javas

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀚𑀯 (Brahmi script)
• जव (Devanagari script)
• জৰ (Bengali script)
• ජව (Sinhalese script)
• ဇဝ or ၹဝ (Burmese script)
• ชว or ชะวะ (Thai script)
• ᨩᩅ (Tai Tham script)
• ຊວ or ຊະວະ (Lao script)
• ជវ (Khmer script)
• 𑄎𑅇 (Chakma script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit जव (java).

Noun

java m

1. speed
2. strength

Further reading

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From jȃv.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

jáva f (Cyrillic spelling ја́ва)

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

Declension

Declension of java

	singular	plural
nominative	java	jave
genitive	jave	java
dative	javi	javama
accusative	javu	jave
vocative	javo	jave
locative	javi	javama
instrumental	javom	javama

Related terms

• jȃv

References

• “java”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024