Where does “Kaffeebohne” come from?

Kaffeebohne (German) comes from German Kaffee, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه, from Persian قهوه, from Arabic قهوة — wine; coffee; coffee shop, café.

Kaffeebohne (German): coffee bean

Definitions

  1. coffee bean

Ancestry of “Kaffeebohne”, step by step

Kaffeebohne traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Kaffee

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

via German Bohne

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanBohnebean
2Middle High Germanbonebean
3Old High GermanbōnaA bean
4Proto-West Germanicbaunubean
5Proto-Germanicbaunōbean
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰabʰ-bean
Every word from Arabic قهوة →Every word from Persian قهوه →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قهوه →