قهْوِة (ahwi) — "coffee" in Levantine Arabic
قهْوِة
ʔáhwi
coffee
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قهْوِة in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
أمي، الله يطول بعمرها، صارت عم تحضّر القهوة السخنة، وإخوتي الصغار مبسوطين عم بيلعبوا جوّا البيت.
ommi, Allah ytawwil bi-'omraha, sarat amm t'haddir al-qahwe as-sukhneh, w ikhweti az-zghar mabsoteen amm bayla'bu jawwa al-bet.
My mother, may God prolong her life, started preparing the hot coffee, and my younger siblings are happy playing inside the house.
القهوة كانت سخنة والشاي كان حلو.
Al qahwa kanat sukhne wal shay kan hulu.
The coffee was hot and the tea was sweet.
from Friends in the City
سارة: هل شربتي قهوة ولا شاي اليوم؟
Sara: Hal shribti qahwa wala shay alyom?
Sarah: Did you drink coffee or tea today?
منشرب قهوة ومناكل خبز
mnishrab ahwa w mnakol khobz
We drink coffee and eat bread.
سامي عزم جاره يشرب قهوة ببيته
sami azam jaro yeshrab ahwe bbayto
Sami invited his neighbor to drink coffee in his house.
from The Sad Neighbor
انصدم رامي، صاحب القهوة العصبي اللي عمرو خمسة وتلاتين سنة، لما فتح خزانته بشارع الحمرا واكتشف إنو عمال التوصيل ما جابوا كياس البن.
Insadam Rami, saheb el ahwe el asabi elli amro khamse w tlatin sene, lamma fatah khazanto bi sharee el Hamra w iktashaf inno ommal el tawsil ma jabu kiyas el bon.
Rami, the stressed thirty-five-year-old coffee shop owner, was shocked when he opened his cabinet on Hamra street and discovered that the delivery workers did not bring the bags of coffee beans.
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