# mocha

Pronunciation: US say "MOH-kuh" /ˈmoʊkə/; UK say "MO-kuh" /ˈmɒkə/

## Noun

1. A coffee drink made with espresso, chocolate and usually hot milk, or a single serving of it.
   - Simple: A coffee drink mixed with chocolate and usually milk, or a cup of it.
   - _He stopped at the café for a mocha before his shift._
   - _The barista topped each mocha with a swirl of melted chocolate._
2. A flavor that blends coffee with chocolate.
   - Simple: A taste that mixes coffee and chocolate together.
   - _The frosting had a deep mocha note that paired well with vanilla._
   - _Bakers often use mocha to enrich brownies and layer cakes._
4. A dark brown color resembling that of mocha coffee.
   - Simple: A deep brown color, like coffee mixed with chocolate.
   - _The designer chose mocha for the fall collection's coats._
   - _Walls painted in mocha gave the room a cozy feel._
5. A strong variety of coffee originally from Arabia.
   - Simple: A strong type of coffee that first came from Arabia.

## Adjective

3. Of a dark brown color resembling mocha coffee.
   - Simple: Having a dark brown color, like coffee with chocolate.
   - _He chose mocha tiles for the bathroom renovation._
   - _Her mocha leather jacket looked stylish in the dim light._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Any of several small geometrid moths of the genus Cyclophora (subfamily Sterrhinae), mostly pale with dark ring-shaped wing markings, so called chiefly in Europe.
- (noun) An Abyssinian unit of weight, given in older sources as one troy grain and in others as a tenth of a rotto.

## Origin

From Mocha, Yemen, a Red Sea port (from Arabic اَلْمُخَا, al-muḵā) that was a major coffee marketplace during Ottoman rule. Its beans often had a chocolaty flavor, and the name came to mean any coffee with a chocolate flavor, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mocha (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).