Coffee
WordNet
noun
(1) A medium brown to dark-brown color
(2) A seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
(3) A beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
"He ordered a cup of coffee"
(4) Any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
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Etymology
From < < . Some Ethiopians claim a derivation from Kaffa, an ancient province of Ethiopia where coffee is said to have originated, but this etymology is highly improbable as it fails to explain the initial shift to the Arabic ‘qahwa’. At the same time, qahwa refers only to coffee in liquid form. When it is dry, either as beans or ground, Arabs call coffee . That word comes from (buna), the Amharic word for coffee.
Many sources state that the Arabic term meant ‘a brew’, especially wine.
Noun
- A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
- A serving of the beverage coffee
- We’d like three coffees on this table please
- The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape.
- A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
- A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
See also
- arabica
- cappuccino
- café au lait
- café noir
- cafeteria
- caffè americano
- caffè corretto
- caffè crème
- caffè freddo
- coffea
- decaf
- demitasse
- eccoccino
- espresso
- espresso breve
- flat white
- frappuccino
- java
- kaffeeklatsch
- latte