coffee
KAW-fee · noun
Origin
English coffee was borrowed from Dutch koffie, which came from Italian caffè, which came from Ottoman Turkish kahve, which came from Arabic qahwa.
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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.