Coffee is associated today with the Arabic word qahwa , which originally denoted a dark red beverage made from the juice of certain seeds that caused excitatory and stimulating effects, so much so that it was also used as a medicine.
From the term qahwa it went on to the Turkish word kahve until it became the Italian word 'coffee.' Some, however, argue that the term comes from the name of the region where this plant was most common in the wild, Caffa, in southwestern Ethiopia.
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