3 ms·

“Kawa” already comes from the Polish word for coffee. Do many languages use a similar word?

• agumonkey 5y ago
  kawa is used in France often and you now make me believe that it's a loan word :)
  • Rexxar 5y ago
    Probably from Maghreb: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua
    • agumonkey 5y ago
      so is poland's kawa derived from maghreb caoua ?
• deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
• desktopninja 5y ago
  Guessing then that variants of the word might popup anywhere the land had significant Arab influence from yesteryears
• jhgb 5y ago
  > Do many languages use a similar word? Here's a potentially helpful picture: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_the_word_for_coffee_26952231/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_t...
• josefrichter 5y ago
  I guess pretty much all the languages around the world use some variation of the work kava/kafe, don’t they? I can’t think of any language that wouldn’t use the word. Obviously I don’t speak all the world languages. More interesting situation is with the tea - half of the world uses some variation of the word tea, the other half uses some variation of the word chai.