Word.ws English Dictionary

carafe

/kəˈɹæf/

carafe noun: a bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.

carafe: a bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages
Image: Illarion Kalashnikov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

carafe (plural carafes)

  1. A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
    • Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.1870, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Run to Earth, page 215
    • […]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.2026 April 4, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Lunch with the FT: Jay McInerney”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
  2. A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
    • Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 177

carafe meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Arabic and Persian

carafe in Bengali

পানির কাচের পাত্র, ডিক্যান্টার

carafe in Malayalam

flask, jug, pitcher
സ്ഫടികപ്പാത്രം, ഫ്ളാസ്ക്, തെർമോഫ്ളാസ്ക്, കുപ്പി, ചെറുകുപ്പി, ഭരണി

carafe in Arabic

bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
غَرَّافَة ḡarrāfa

carafe in Persian

bottle for serving wine, water, or beverages
تنگ tong, قرابه qarâbe, صراحی sorâhi

Forms of carafe

pluralcarafes

Origin of carafe

First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”). Doublet of carboy.

Words that rhyme with carafe

14 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about carafe

What does carafe mean?
Carafe means a bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
What is carafe in Bengali?
Carafe in Bengali is পানির কাচের পাত্র, ডিক্যান্টার. See Carafe meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is carafe?
Carafe is a noun.
How do you pronounce carafe?
Carafe is pronounced /kəˈɹæf/ (UK).
What is the plural of carafe?
The plural of carafe is carafes.

Words near carafe in the dictionary

  1. Caradocian
  2. Caradog
  3. Caradon
  4. Caradonna
  5. Caradonnas
  6. carafe
  7. carafes
  8. caraffe
  9. caraffes
  10. carafiban
  11. Carag Carag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: carafe (page history and authors); carafe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); carafe (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-carafe.wav.

Cite this entry: “carafe.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/carafe. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.