Cezve

Cezve
Cezve

A cezve is a pot designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. The body and handle is traditionally made of brass or copper (occasionally silver or gold), however in more recent times stainless steel, aluminium and ceramic offerings have become common.

The long handle is particularly useful to avoid burning one's hands, and the brim is designed to serve the coffee. Other regional variations of the word cezve are jezve and čezve. In Ukrainian and Russian, the word is spelled джезва (where it exists alongside with турка Russian pronunciation: [ˈturkə]).

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Name

The name cezve is of Arabic origin, but the spelling derives from the Ottoman Turkish spelling in Arabic script (جذوه), based on Arabic جذوة, meaning a burning log or coal (presumably because the pot was heated on them).[1]

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia it is a long-necked coffee pot, spelled "džezva" Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdʒezʋa].

Other names

  • In Greece, the device is called a briki (μπρίκι). (The same Greek word is also used for brig.[2] However, the English word brig is in origin an abbreviation for brigantine and is unrelated to ibrik.) The Greek name is more commonly used in English-speaking countries such as the United States and Australia because of their large Greek immigrant populations.
  • Elsewhere, the cezve is known as an ibrik, which is also its most common name in the United States. The same usage is common in Romania. Ibrik is Turkish word from Arabic `ibriq in turn a rendition of Persian a:bri:z - a:b water, ri:z (older rêz) a cup.[3][4] In Turkey, 'ibrik' has another meaning, it is again used for long spouts but used for handling liquids like oil and wine, not for brewing coffee.
  • Raqwa (rakwa) — Rakwa is an Arabic word used in the Levant for a small coffee pot of copper, having a long handle (originally a leather bag for water, later a coffee pot).
  • Zezwa — The Tunisian name derived from Cezve.
  • Kanaka — The Egyptian Arabic term.
  • In Albanian it is called xhezve
  • In some parts of Serbia it is called a 'lonče' (лонче in Cyrillic)

Different Turkish Cezve Models

See also

References

  1. ^ Cezve at Wiktionary.org
  2. ^ μπρίκι at Wiktionary.org
  3. ^ See Stenigass Persian-English dictionary under ibri:q.
  4. ^ ibrik at Wiktionary.org

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