According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
AFFRICATE
affricate, affricate consonant, affricative
(noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ‘ch’ in ‘chair’ and ‘j’ in ‘joy’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
affricate (plural affricates)
(phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative.
Synonym: affricative
Hypernym: obstruent
Verb
affricate (third-person singular simple present affricates, present participle affricating, simple past and past participle affricated)
(transitive) To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.
Source: Wiktionary
Af"fri*cate, n. [L. affricatus, p. p. of affricare to rub against; af- = ad- + fricare to rub.] (Phon.)
Definition: A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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