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別の表記

• zarph, zurf, zurph

語源

Likely borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ظَرْف (zarf), ultimately from Arabic ظَرْف (ẓarf). Also influenced by Classical Persian ظَرْف (zarf) and Hindustani (Hindi ज़र्फ़ (zarf) / Urdu ظَرْف (zarf)).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /zɑɹf/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /zɑːf/

名詞

zarf (plural zarfs)

1. An ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker.
   • 1860, Edward William Lane, “V: Domestic Life”, in An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, page 138:

     In presenting the coffee, the servant holds the foot of the zarf with his thumb and first finger. In receiving the fingán and zarf, he makes use of both hands, place the left beneath and the right above at the same instant.

   • 2025 September 17, James Doubek, “What to know about zarfs, the fanciest way to drink coffee”, in Word of the Week‎, NPR, retrieved 17 September 2025:

     Cenk Girginol, a Turkish coffee consultant and author of the book Coffee: From the Soil to the Cup, says zarfs began to be used at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century. […] By the 19th century, goldsmiths in Geneva were making zarfs to export, according to the Khalili Collections. Recent auctions and museum collections show zarfs that were made in France, Syria, Iran and Switzerland. A zarf in the Louvre's collection, covered in emeralds and diamonds, was owned by Abdul Hamid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s and early 1900s.