Plural of coffee—the dark brown beverage made from roasted and ground coffee beans, or the beans themselves, or types of coffee.
From Arabic 'qahwah,' possibly meaning 'wine' or a type of wine. The word traveled through Turkish 'kahve' and Italian to European languages, arriving in English around the 1600s when coffee became popular in Europe.
Coffee's route through languages mirrors the Silk Road of trade—it started in Ethiopia, moved to the Middle East where Arabs named it, then Turks spread it, and finally Europeans discovered it! The fact that we say 'different coffees' (like 'three coffees please') shows how completely this Arabian word became part of English business culture.
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