mocha

Everyday

1. A coffee drink made with chocolate, hot milk and espresso. tree →
2. A kind of strong coffee, first traded from the port of Mocha in Yemen. tree →
3. A mid-brown colour like milky coffee. tree →
4. A flavour mixing coffee and chocolate, as in mocha cake. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life, adults order mochas in cafés; mocha cakes and ice cream are popular. In history and geography, Mocha (also al-Mukha) in Yemen was once the world's most famous coffee port. In art and clothes, mocha is a soft brown colour. Phrases: a mocha latte, mocha brown, mocha cake.

Examples

• Mum ordered a mocha with whipped cream. tree →
• A mocha has coffee and chocolate in it. tree →
• The sofa is a mocha brown colour. tree →
• Mocha in Yemen was a famous coffee port long ago. tree →
• Grandad baked a mocha cake for his birthday. tree →
• My hot chocolate is for me; the mocha is for Dad. tree →
• Coffee drinks like mochas have caffeine, so they are not good for children. tree →

Note

Countable when it is a cup («two mochas»), uncountable for the flavour or colour. Pronounced MOK-uh (UK) or MOH-kuh (US). Note: a mocha contains caffeine. Capital M for the port in Yemen.

In Jewish tradition

"Rabbi Mocha" is a name here, not a drink. He is said in the text to have invented a system of vowel marks.

Interpretation. Some scholars name a teacher in Palestine as the source of vowel signs for reading Hebrew. The standard tradition says the reading was handed down from Sinai.

Examples

• Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

Note

Countable when it is a cup («two mochas»), uncountable for the flavour or colour. Pronounced MOK-uh (UK) or MOH-kuh (US). Note: a mocha contains caffeine. Capital M for the port in Yemen.