Translation
coffee
Word origin
From the international coffee word, ultimately Arabic qahwa, which reached Europe through Turkish kahve and Italian caffe. Esperanto trimmed it to the shared consonants k-f.
- Origin
- Arabic, via Turkish and Italian
- Root
- qahwa
- English cognates
- coffee, cafe
Examples
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I drink coffee every morning.
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Would you like some coffee?
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The coffee is warm and good.
A coffee house is o, with the place suffix --, and it does duty for cafe in general. Quantity takes : , a cup of coffee. is the drink and the bean both; context sorts it out, as it does in English.
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