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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:29 am
The English word coffee first came into use in the early- to mid-1600s, but early forms of the word date to the last decade of the 1500s. It comes from the Italian caffè. This, in turn, was borrowed from the Persian ghahveh, Ottoman Turkish kahveh, and the Arabic qahwa (قهوة) collectively. The origin of the Arabic and Persian terms is uncertain; they are either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in southern Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of qahwat al-būnn, meaning "wine of the bean" in Arabic. In Eritrea, "būnn" (also meaning "wine of the bean" in Tigrinyna) is used. The Amharic and Afan Oromo name for coffee is bunna.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:40 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:34 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:31 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:01 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:08 am
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