Cezve


A cezve, also '/' or , is a small long-handled pot with a pouring lip designed specifically to make Turkish coffee, and certain forms of Arabic coffee. It is traditionally made of brass or copper, occasionally also silver or gold. In more recent times cezveler are also made from stainless steel, aluminium, or ceramics.

Name

The name cezve is of Turkish origin, where it is a borrowing from .
The cezve is also known as an ibrik, a Turkish word from Arabic إبريق. This term was loaned from medieval Eastern Aramaic forms in ʾaḇrēqā, and originated in New Persian , from Middle Persian, ultimately from Old Persian 'water' + 'pour'.
Other variants are ghalaya, bakraj, briki, rakwa, in Russian and kanaka.
In Modern Hebrew, it is called a . Arabic coffee is commonly consumed in Israel, but in the Arab world, فِنْجَان finjān always refers to the cup, not the pot in which it is prepared. The semantic shift may have originated with Jews of the Yishuv, who did not speak fluent Arabic and misunderstood the equipment used by Palestinians in Nazareth, who served them coffee.

Variations

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