beverage

See also: Beverage

English

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛvəɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈbɛvɹɪd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (California):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbev(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbev(ə)ɹəd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: bev‧er‧age
• Rhymes: -ɛvəɹɪdʒ, -ɛvɹɪdʒ

Noun

A selection of beverages at a buffet in Bratislava, Slovakia

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

2. A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.

   Alternative forms: bevvy, bev (clipped forms)

   Synonym: drink

   Hypernyms: liquid < substance, stuff

   Hyponyms: soft drink, hard drink; adult beverage, functional beverage, junk beverage; see also Thesaurus:beverage

   carbonated beverage;   alcoholic beverage

   • 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^[1], 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. (UK, 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.

Derived terms

• adult beverage
• beverageware
• functional beverage
• junk beverage
• nonbeverage

Related terms

• bever

Translations

drink — see also drink

• Afrikaans: drankie
• Albanian: pije (sq) f, dhallë (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: суузун (suuzun)

• 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 liu^6-2), 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) (suwsın), ішімдік (kk) (išimdik)
• Khmer: គ្រឿងផឹក (krɨəng phək), ភេសជ្ជៈ (km) (pheisaccĕəʼ)
• Korean: 음료(飮料) (ko) (eumnyo), 음료수(飮料水) (ko) (eumnyosu) (soft drink), 마실 것 (masil geot), 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)
• Māori: inu, inuinu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ундаа (mn) (undaa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drikk (no) m

• Occitan: beguda (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: пиво n (pivo)

• 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

  Latin: nápitak (sh), píće (sh) n

• Slovak: nápoj (sk) m
• Slovene: pijača (sl) f
• Spanish: bebida (es) f, bebienda f, bebercio m, brebaje (es) m, brebajo m
• Swahili: kinywaji (sw)
• Swedish: dryck (sv) c
• Tajik: нӯш (nüš), нӯшокӣ (nüšoki), машрубот (tg) (mašrubot), машруб (mašrub), нӯшоба (tg) (nüšoba), нӯшиданӣ (nüšidani)
• Tatar: эчемлек (tt) (eçemlek)
• Thai: เครื่องดื่ม (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-dʉ̀ʉm)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: içecek (tr), meşrubat (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مشروبات (meşrubat), شربت (şerbet), شراب (şarab)

• 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 Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “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