coffe的词源
英文词源
- coffee
- coffee: [16] The word coffee first reached us in a form which we would now recognize in the 17th century, probably via Italian caffè. It is ultimately, however, of Middle Eastern origin, and the earliest spellings recorded in English reflect this: chaoua, cauwa, kahue, cahve, etc are modelled closely on Turkish kahveh and its source, Arabic qahwah.
Where the Arabic word came from is not known for certain: probably it is based in some way on Kaffa, the name of an area in the south Abyssinian highlands from which the coffee tree is said to originate, but it has also been claimed to have signified originally some sort of wine. Café [19] comes of course from French café, whose source was Italian caffè. From the French word was derived caféine, from which English gets caffeine [19], while Spanish café produced cafetero ‘coffeeseller’, source of English cafeteria [20].
=> café, caffeine, cafeteria - coffee (n.)
- c. 1600, from Italian caffe, from Turkish kahveh, from Arabic qahwah "coffee," said originally to have meant "wine," but perhaps rather from Kaffa region of Ethiopia, a home of the plant (coffee in Kaffa is called buno, which was borrowed into Arabic as bunn "raw coffee"). Much initial persity of spelling, including chaoua.
Yemen was the first great coffee exporter and to protect its trade decreed that no living plant could leave the country. In 16c., a Muslim pilgrim brought some coffee beans from Yemen and raised them in India. Appeared in Europe (from Arabia) c. 1515-1519. Introduced to England by 1650, and by 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses. Coffee plantations established in Brazil 1727. Meaning "a light meal at which coffee is served" is from 1774. Coffee break attested from 1952, at first often in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau. Coffee pot from 1705.
Did you drink a cup of coffee on company time this morning? Chances are that you did--for the midmorning coffee break is rapidly becoming a standard fixture in American offices and factories. ["The Kiplinger Magazine," March 1952]
- coffer (n.)
- mid-13c., from Old French cofre "a chest" (12c., Modern French coffre), from Latin cophinus "basket" (see coffin).
- scoffer (n.)
- late 15c., agent noun from scoff (v.).
中文词源
据说公元805年，阿拉伯有一个牧羊人，名叫Kaldi，看见他的羊群行为很异常，心里很纳闷。后来发现羊群在啃食一种干果，于是决定尝一尝。他吃了以后，异常兴奋，就冲下山去，把这种干果告诉了别的牧羊人，阿拉伯人不久学会了把这种灌木的新鲜果实弄干以及煎煮的方法。他们把煮后的饮料叫做qahwa.Qahwa的饮用立即在穆斯林中间引起了巨大的骚动。大家知道，按照伊斯兰教的教义规定，伊斯兰教徒是不准饮酒的。一些教徒为使自己在做冗长的礼拜时不致困倦，就饮用了这种饮料；而另一些教徒则认为quhwa有刺激作用，属于酒类，必须禁饮。然而信仰伊斯兰教的土耳其人不管这一套，欣然接受了这种饮料，并称为kahve；以后传到法国，叫café；后来又传到英国，叫coffee。
还有一种说法认为coffee名字是从埃塞俄比亚西南部的一个城市名Kaffa来的，因为据说那里是最早煮食咖啡的地方。
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