coffee
KAW-fee · noun
ArabicOttoman TurkishItalianDutchEnglish
Origin
English coffee was borrowed from Dutch koffie, which came from Italian caffè, which came from Ottoman Turkish kahve, which came from Arabic qahwa.
Journey
The facts don't describe a shift in meaning, only a long relay of borrowing — the word kept its core sense as it passed from Arabic through Turkish, Italian, and Dutch into English.
Related words
Coffee is a doublet of café and caffè, and it's cognate with the words for the drink in most other major European languages, which mostly trace back to the same Turkish and Italian forms.