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Fun facts, the word coffee come from Kahve, the bastardization of the word Kahwa meaning coffee in Arabic since Turkish lacks "w" and normally replaces it with "v".

Another related fun facts, the now universal European word cafe also come from the same word originally meaning coffee drinking place or shop [1].

[1] Coffee and qahwa: How a drink for Arab mystics went global:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22190802




>Another related fun facts, the now universal European word cafe also come from the same word originally meaning coffee drinking place or shop.

Isn't that pretty obvious? It's literally the French word for coffee.




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