in the old timekeeping system, the period of roughly 2:00 until 4:00, both AM and PM · a snack eaten at around 3:00 pm · a snack between meals
köken: Compound of お (o, honorific prefix) + 八 (ya, “eight”) + つ (tsu, nominalizing suffix). Times in the old Japanese timekeeping system were labelled using either the animals of the Chinese zodiac or numbers descending from 9 to 4, once from noon and again from midnight. The time when おやつ (oyatsu) were eaten was labelled using the number 8, as 昼八つ (hiruyatsu, “8 in the daytime”). First cited to a text…
having coffee, tea, saft (“cordial, squash”), or the like, usually with cookies, pastries, or other (sweet) snacks, usually with others, as a social activity · a coffee (or tea, etc.) break, when taking a break to do the above
çekim: çoğul fikor · tamlayan fikas
köken: This sense is attested in writing from 1910. One possible explanation is that the word is formed by backslang of the syllables in the dialectal word kaffi (“coffee”), from Dutch koffie or a similar source. Another possible etymology is that it is derived from the older verb fika (desire, crave – see § Etymology 2), in the sense of craving something sweet.
Jause (“snack”) + -en (verb suffix), which properly would give *jausen; possible influenced by Jausen (“Vesperbrot; cold meal at afternoon”) which could explain the 2nd n.