The word ‘coffee’, which first came to be used in the 1600s, comes from the Italian, ‘caffe’. The term was introduced to Europe via the Ottoman Turkish ‘kahveh’ which is in turn derived from the Arabic ‘qahweh’.
The origin of the Arabic term is uncertain – it is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of ‘qahwat al-bu-nn’, meaning ‘wine of the bean’ in Arabic.
The origin of the Arabic term is uncertain – it is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of ‘qahwat al-bu-nn’, meaning ‘wine of the bean’ in Arabic.
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