Engineering:Cezve

Short description: Traditional pot for making Turkish coffee

Turkish coffee being poured from a copper cezve

A cezve (Turkish: cezve, pronounced [dʒezˈve]; Template:Lang-sh-Latn-Cyrl; Arabic: جِذوَة), also ibriki/briki (Greek: μπρίκι), srjep (Armenian: սրճեփ) is a small long-handled pot with a pouring lip designed specifically to make Turkish coffee. It is traditionally made of brass or copper, occasionally also silver or gold. In more recent times cezveler are also made from stainless steel, aluminium, or ceramics.

Name

The name cezve is of Turkish origin, where it is a borrowing from Arabic: جِذوَة (jadhwa or jidhwa, meaning 'ember').

The cezve is also known as an ibrik, a Turkish word from Arabic إبريق (ʿibrīq), from Aramaic Template:Script/Aramaic (ʾaḇrēqā), from early Modern Persian *ābrēž (cf. Modern Persian ābrēz), from Middle Persian *āb-rēǰ, ultimately from Old Persian *āp- 'water' + *raiča- 'pour' (cf. Modern Persian and Middle Persian ریختن [rêxtan]).

Variations

In Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the cezve is a long-necked coffee pot. In Turkish an ibrik is not a coffee pot, but simply a pitcher or ewer.

Gallery

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  Copper cezve with Turkish coffee pouring out

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  Utensils to prepare Turkish coffee (handmade from Crete). A cezve is at the bottom.

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  Turkish coffee set containing a cup of coffee, a cezve and a sugar bowl

See also

• Dallah (Arabic coffee pot)
• Jebena (Ethiopian coffee pot)
• Arabic coffee
• Turkish coffee
• List of cooking vessels

Sources

• alt.coffee thread archive regarding cezve word origin
• Comech's cezve page at tamu.edu