Ethiopia, considered by many archeologists to be the birthplace of the first Homo sapiens some 400,000 years ago, is also believed to have given his descendants a very popular, energizing, and stimulating drink -coffee.
The first coffee plants are said to have come from a region called Kaffa in southwestern Ethiopia. Some lexicographers actually consider “Kaffa” to be origin of the English “coffee”, although others do not agree. This is because the plant, including its fruit, is called bunn or bunna* in the Kaffa area. As an alternative to “Kaffa”, the Turkish word “kahve” is often presented as the root of “coffee”, passing though the Italian language as “caffe” before in became “coffee” in English. Rooted, in turn, in the Arabic word “qaha”, “kahve” refers to a drink that curbs the appetite, something that coffee is believed to do.
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