Where does “kahvinpapu” come from?

kahvinpapu (Finnish) comes from Finnish kahvi, from Swedish kaffe, from German Kaffee, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه, from Persian قهوه — wine; coffee; coffee shop, café.

kahvinpapu (Finnish): A coffee bean

Definitions

  1. A coffee bean

Ancestry of “kahvinpapu”, step by step

kahvinpapu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kahvi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkahvicoffee
2Swedishkaffecoffee
3GermanKaffeecoffee; afternoon coffee, coffee and cake
4Frenchcafécoffee; coffee colour; public house
5Italiancaffècoffee; a café
6Turkishkahvecoffee
7Ottoman Turkishقهوهcoffee
8Persianقهوهcoffee
9Arabicقهوةwine; coffee; coffee shop, café

via Finnish papu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpapubean; common bean; muscle, especially the biceps
2Proto-Finnicpapubean
3Proto-Slavicbobъbean, fava bean
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰabʰ-bean
Every word from Arabic قهوة →Every word from Persian قهوه →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قهوه →