Etymology

The English word coffee first came into use in the early- to mid-1600s, but early forms date back to the last decade of the 1500s. It comes from the Italian caffè. This, in turn, was borrowed from the Persian Ghahveh, Ottoman Turkish kahveh, the Arabic qahwa collectively.
The origin of the Arabic qahwa (قهوة), or the Persian Ghahveh is uncertain. It is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in southern Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of qahwat al-būnn, meaning "wine of the bean" in Arabic.