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Definition 2024

caffeine

caffeine

English

Alternative forms

caffein

Noun

caffeine ‎(usually uncountable, plural caffeines)

An alkaloid, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, found naturally in tea and coffee plants which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system.

Translations

alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants

Albanian: kafeinë (sq) f
Arabic: كَافِيِين m ‎(kāfiyīn)
Armenian: կոֆեին (hy) ‎(kofein)
Asturian: cafeína f
Azeri: kofein
Belarusian: кафеі́н m ‎(kafjeín)
Bengali: ক্যাফিন ‎(kæphin)
Bulgarian: кофеи́н m ‎(kofeín)
Burmese:
Catalan: cafeïna f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 咖啡因 ‎(gaa³ fe¹ jan¹)

Hakka: 咖啡因 ‎(kha-fei-yin, kà-pì-yîn)

Mandarin: 咖啡因 (zh) ‎(kāfēiyīn), 咖啡鹼, 咖啡碱 ‎(kāfēijiǎn)

Min Nan: 咖啡因 ‎(ka-pi-in)
Czech: kofein m
Danish: koffein n, c
Dutch: cafeïne (nl) m, f
Esperanto: kafeino
Estonian: kofeiin
Finnish: kofeiini (fi)
French: caféine (fr) f
Galician: cafeína f
Georgian: კოფეინი ‎(ḳopeini)
German: Koffein (de) n, Coffein (de) n
Greek: καφεΐνη (el) ‎(kafeḯni)
Hebrew: קָפֶאִין (he) m ‎(kafe'in)
Hindi: कैफीन ‎(kaiphīn), कैफ़ीन ‎(kaifīn)
Hungarian: koffein (hu)
Icelandic: koffín (is) n, (dated) kaffín (is) n
Indonesian: kafein
Irish: caiféin
Italian: caffeina (it) f
Japanese: カフェイン ‎(kafein)
Kazakh: кофеин ‎(kofeïn)
Khmer: ជាតិកាហ្វេអ៊ីន ‎(ciet kaafee’iin)

Korean: 카페인 (ko) ‎(kapein)
Kyrgyz: кофеин ‎(kofein)
Lao: ຄາເຟອີນ ‎(khā fē 'īn)
Latvian: kofeīns m
Lithuanian: kofeinas m
Macedonian: кофеи́н m ‎(kofeín)
Malagasy: kafeinina, kafeina (mg)
Malay: kafein
Mongolian: кофеин ‎(kofein)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: koffein (no) m, n

Nynorsk: koffein m, n
Persian: كافئين (fa) ‎(kâfe'in)
Polish: kofeina (pl) f
Portuguese: cafeína (pt) f
Romanian: cafeină (ro) f, cofeină (ro) f
Russian: кофеи́н (ru) m ‎(kofeín)
Scottish Gaelic: caifein m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: кофѐӣн m

Roman: kofèīn (sh) m
Slovak: kofeín m
Slovene: kofein (sl) m
Spanish: cafeína (es) f
Swedish: koffein (sv) n
Tajik: кофеин ‎(kofeyin)
Thai: คาเฟอีน ‎(kaa-fay-een)
Turkish: kafein (tr)
Turkmen: kafein, kafeyin
Ukrainian: кофеї́н m ‎(kofejín)
Urdu: کیفین ‎(kaifīn)
Uzbek: kofein (uz)
Vietnamese: cafêin, cà phê tinh, caffein
Volapük: kafein

See also

caffeine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

caffeine f

plural of caffeina