English Words from Arabic
coffee
القَهْوَة
qahwa
The Arabic name of the drink travelled through Turkish kahve and Italian caffè into English.
- Meaning in Arabic
- coffee, the drink
- Arabic today says
- القَهْوَة
The path between languagesqahwa → kahve → caffè → coffee
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