beverage

See also: Beverage

English

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beverage

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• beveridge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈbev(a)ɾeːd͡ʒ/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈbiː-/

Noun

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

2. (chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, usually excluding water.
   • 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 44:

     He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]

   • 1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil‎, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137:

     [W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.

3. (British, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.

Usage notes

More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.

Synonyms

• drink

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:beverage

Derived terms

• adult beverage
• alcoholic beverage
• bev
• beverageware
• bevvy
• functional beverage
• nonbeverage

Related terms

• bever

Translations

drink

Afrikaans: drankie Albanian: pije (sq) f, dhallë (sq) f Amharic: መጠጥ (mäṭäṭ) Apache: Western Apache: hidląąhí Arabic: شَرَاب m (šarāb), مَشْرُوب m (mašrūb) Aragonese: bebida f Armenian: խմիչք (hy) (xmičʻkʻ), ըմպելիք (hy) (əmpelikʻ) Asturian: bebida (ast) f Azerbaijani: içki (az), məşrubat, içiləcək Bashkir: эсемлек (esemlek) Basque: edari (eu) Belarusian: напо́й m (napój) Breton: died (br) f, evaj (br) m, boeson (br) m Bulgarian: напи́тка (bg) f (napítka), питие́ (bg) n (pitié) Burmese: ယမကာ (my) (ya.ma.ka) Catalan: beguda (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 飲品 / 饮品 (jam2 ban2), 飲料 / 饮料 (jam2 liu6-2), 嘢飲 / 嘢饮 (je5 jam2) (informal) Mandarin: 飲料 / 饮料 (zh) (yǐnliào), 飲品 / 饮品 (zh) (yǐnpǐn) Czech: nápoj (cs) m Danish: drik (da) c Dutch: drankje (nl) n, drank (nl) m Esperanto: trinkaĵo Estonian: jook (et) Finnish: juoma (fi) French: boisson (fr) f, breuvage (fr) m Galician: bebida (gl) f, beberaxe f Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli) German: Getränk (de) n Greek: ποτό (el) n (potó) Gujarati: પેય n (peya), પીણું n (pīṇũ) Hebrew: מַשְׁקֶה (he) m (mashké) Hindi: पेय (hi) m (pey) Hungarian: ital (hu) Icelandic: drykkur (is) m Ido: drinkajo (io) Igbo: ihe ana anu anu Indonesian: minuman (id) Ingrian: jooma Interlingua: bibita Irish: deoch (ga) f Italian: bevanda (it) Japanese: 飲料 (ja) (いんりょう, inryō), ドリンク (ja) (dorinku), 飲み物 (ja) (のみ​もの, nomimono) Kazakh: сусын (kk) (susyn), ішімдік (kk) (ışımdık) Khmer: គ្រឿងផឹក (krɨəng phək), ភេសជ្ជៈ (km) (pheisaccĕəʼ) Korean: 음료(飮料) (ko) (eumnyo), 마실 것 (masil geot), 음료수(飮料水) (ko) (eumnyosu) (soft drink), 드링크 (ko) (deuringkeu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: vexurik (ku), vexwarek (ku) Kyrgyz: суусундук (ky) (suusunduk) Lao: ເຄື່ອງດື່ມ (lo) (khư̄ang dư̄m) Latin: pōtus m Latvian: dzēriens m Lithuanian: gėrimas (lt) m Lü: ᦍᦲᧃᦜᦶᧁᧈ (yiinl̇aew¹) Macedonian: пијалок m (pijalok) Malay: minuman (ms) Malayalam: പാനീയം (ml) (pānīyaṁ) Maori: inu, inuinu Mongolian: Cyrillic: ундаа (mn) (undaa) Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: drikk (no) m Occitan: beguda (oc) f Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: пиво n (pivo) Ottoman Turkish: مشروبات (meşrubat), شربت (şerbet), شراب (şarab) Pannonian Rusyn: напой m (napoj), напиток m (napitok) Pashto: مشروب m (mašrub), څښاک (ps) m (cx̌āk) Persian: Iranian Persian: نوشابِه (nušâbe), نوشیدَنی (nušidani), مَشْروب (mašrub) Polish: napój (pl) m Portuguese: bebida (pt) f Romanian: băutură (ro) f Russian: напи́ток (ru) m (napítok), питьё (ru) n (pitʹjó) (generic for "drinks"), по́йло (ru) n (pójlo) (same, slang) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: на́питак m, пи́ће n Roman: nápitak (sh), píće (sh) n Slovak: nápoj (sk) m Slovene: pijača (sl) f Southern Altai: суузун (suuzun) Spanish: bebida (es) f, trago (es) m, brebaje (es) m, brebajo m Swahili: kinywaji (sw) Swedish: dryck (sv) c Tajik: нӯш (nüš), нӯшоки (nüšok-i), машрубот (tg) (mašrubot), машруб (mašrub) Tatar: эчемлек (tt) (eçemlek) Thai: เครื่องดื่ม (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-dʉ̀ʉm) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: içecek (tr), meşrubat (tr) Turkmen: içgi Ukrainian: напі́й (uk) m (napíj), напи́ток m (napýtok) Urdu: مَشْرُوب m (maśrūb) Uyghur: ئىچىملىك (ichimlik) Uzbek: ichimlik (uz) Vietnamese: nước giải khát (vi) Welsh: diod (cy) f Yiddish: געטראַנק n (getrank) Yoruba: ohun mímu

References

• Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “beverage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beverage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• berage, berrage, berygge, bevereche, beveredg, beverege, beverich, beveriche

Etymology

From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever +‎ -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛvəˈraːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈbɛvərad͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

beverage (plural beverages)

1. An (alcoholic) beverage or beverages.
2. Such a beverage used to close negotiations; said negotiations in themselves.
3. Hardship, pain, torment; events that are hard to handle.

Descendants

• English: beverage
• Scots: beverage, baiverage

References

• “beverāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 October 2018.

Old French

Noun

beverage oblique singular, m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. alternative form of bevrage