Other forms: coffees
Coffee is the dark bitter drink made from roasted beans. A cup of coffee, black coffee, go for a coffee.
The bean is the seed of a fruit called a cherry, and the two main species are arabica and robusta. Espresso, filter, cafetière and instant are the main preparations. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil by some measures. Note coffee break, coffee morning, coffee table, and that going for a coffee usually means talking rather than drinking.
1nouncoffeeA dark bitter drink made from roasted beans.
“The coffee in that machine has been undrinkable since 2019.”
coffee is a drink.
Arabic qahwa came into English through Turkish and Italian. The plant is native to Ethiopia and the drink spread through Yemen and the Ottoman world, which is why the word arrived by such a long route.
Dutch
koffie
English, today
coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie. Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from ota قهوه, from Arabic قَهْوَة. a doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA