Noun: carafe
| Singular | carafe |
| Plural | carafes |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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[…]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:]
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Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee. [2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 177:]
Nouns inflected like carafe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: French Nouns '
carafe', Italian Nouns '
caraffa'.