Cezve

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A Cezve is a Turkish coffee pot designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. The long handle is particularly useful to avoid burning one's hands, and the brim is designed to serve the coffee. Cezve is the correct Turkish term for what is commonly called an Ibrik in the United States. Ibrik is the Arabic term, and thus not used by the Turks themselves. Other regional variations of cezve are: jezve (pronounced: yez-vuh, ĉezve (pronounced: chehz-vuh). Elsewhere, the cezve is known as an ibrik, which is also the most common usage in the United States. This word is also used in Russian [d(zh)Ezva], along with [tUrka].

Origin

Cezve is of Turkish origin, judging from the Ottoman spelling in Arabic script as ce*dh*ve (read cezve) it is based on Arabic ja*dh*wa(t), meaning a burning log or coal (presumably because the pot was heated on them). In Bosnian it is a long-necked coffee pot, pronounced "d(zh)Ezva."

Other names

• Mpriki (pronounced [briki])

This is a Greek word for cezve; it also denotes a ship. Must be a descendant of the Turkish ibrik

• Raqwa (rakwa)

Rakwa is Arabic.

In Syrian: small coffee pot of copper, having a long handle (originally a leather bag for water, later a coffee pot).

In Arabic, the words Rawiya/Rawi refer to a storyteller who recites the tales in a coffee house or at a family gathering. (Source: [www.ineas.org/zannobiya.htm])

• Finjan

Comes from Persian. turk < `ar. < pers. pinga:n

It may be that the Persian word has a Greek ultimate origin, from Greek ``pinaka (acc. of pinaks) in Hebrew and in Aramaic pinka is a bowl''. finjan is also in Turkish, Greek ("flitzani"), and, I think, Serbo-Croatian. Egyptians call it a "fingal." It is listed as an English word in the old OED, spelled fingan and finjan, meaning "a small porcelain cup used in the Levant." It has a lot of letters to be originally Arabic. I bet the Arabs got it from the Turks or Persians. In Hebrew pinach (from Aramaic pinka) is a mess tin or mess kit a compact kit of cooking and eating utensils for use by soldiers and campers.

• Dalla

This is an Arabic word for pot with a long curved spout and handle used for brewing coffee (among Syrian nomads and in some parts of Saudi Arabia).

• Ibrik

Ibrik is Turkish from Arabic `ibriq in turn a rendition of Persian a:bri:z - a:b water, ri:z (older re^z) a cup. See Stenigass Persian-English dictionary under ibri:q.

Turkish people say that ibrik is a pot with a long spout (similar to Arabic dalla) which is used not for brewing coffee but for liquids, like oil and wine. This word (with the same meaning) is said to be quite common in Romanian. The thick foam at the top of a well-prepared Turkish coffee in Romanian and Turkish is kaymak (cream in Turkish).

Related information

Turkish coffee is enjoyed by members of The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) at the Barony of Southron Gaard within the Kingdom of Lochac's Canterbury Faire event held in the South Island of New Zealand. Visitors to the Mangy Mongol Coffeehouse and Tavern (Lord Michelet de Saint Claire, Proprietor) will taste some of the best Turkish coffee and finest comestibles to be had.

See also

• Turkish coffee

References

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

 

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