coffee
/ˈkɔ.fi/
UK: /ˈkɒf.i/
KƆ · fi (2 syllables)
English
Noun Top 666
American (Lessac)
(medium)
Female
0.7s
American (Ryan)
(medium)
Male
0.3s
American (Amy)
(medium)
Female
0.7s
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Definition
A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Example Sentences
- "He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out."
- "The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…]."
- "VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning."
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