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café

coffeebebida hecha con granos tostados y molidos

Comes from Arabic

قَهْوَة

qahwa

“coffee (once also wine)”«el café (antes, también el vino)»

Arabic today says

قَهْوَة

qahwa

And it still does

Root

ق ه و

q-h-w

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It does not come from al-Andalus: it arrived in the 17th century via Turkish kahve and Italian caffè. In old Arabic, qahwa was also used for wine.No viene de al-Andalus: llegó en el siglo XVII por el turco kahve y el italiano caffè. En árabe antiguo qahwa también se decía del vino.

In a sentence

¿Quedamos para un café?

Shall we meet for a coffee?

هَلْ نَلْتَقِي عَلَى فِنْجَانِ قَهْوَة؟

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