A (, ; ; ), also / (), (), rakwa (Arabic: ركوة), ghallaya (Arabic: غلاية), or kanaka (Arabic: كَنَكَة), is a small long-handled pot with a pouring lip designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. It is traditionally made of brass or copper, occasionally also silver or gold. In more recent times are also made from stainless steel, aluminium, or ceramics.

Name

The English word was borrowed from Turkish, where it is a borrowing from ( or , meaning 'ember').

The is also known as an , a Turkish word from Arabic (). This term was borrowed from medieval Eastern Aramaic forms in , and originated in New Persian (cf. Farsi ), from Middle Persian , ultimately from Old Persian 'water' + 'pour' (New Persian []).

Other variants are ghallaya, briki, rakwa, () in Russian and kanaka.

Variations

In Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the is a long-necked coffee pot. In Turkish an is not a coffee pot, but simply a pitcher or ewer.

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See also

• Dallah (Arabic coffee pot)

• Jebena (Ethiopian coffee pot)

• Arabic coffee

• Turkish coffee

• List of cooking vessels

References

Sources

• alt.coffee thread archive regarding cezve word origin

• Comech's cezve page at tamu.edu