Eleonora, beautiful info indeed. Interesting. Accordingly the Italian bar is better than the American bar.
Since it seems you are interested in coffee, i would like to give some history of coffee from its name.
Qahwa, or Kahwa or cahwa, this is the name of coffee in Arabic, a modern name. But Qahwa, is a name the arab poets used as far as 1600 years ago in reference to alcohol. So, the original meaning of Qahwa is alcohol.
But, in islam, alcohol with all its components from production to drinking it, is illegal. Because of that the word Qahwa departed from alcohol and stuck to the actual coffee. It seems to me, that since both, alcohol and coffee beans has an impact on the state of feeling, the arabs called the coffee beans as Qahwa. At this point, i guess, the coffee beans took its famous name Arabica.
Now, when the word of Qahwa was used in Europe, it has to match the local tongues. The letter W in Qahwa, in some European and the Persian tongue, is pronounced V, like in Victor. And the letter V is closer to the letter F, so, with time it transformed from Qahwa to coffee.
I went back to a 1000 years old dictionary in arabic, and found the word Qahwa has no reference to coffee beans, but to alcohol. Yet, what is interesting, is that the verb meaning of Qahwa in arabic, is when someone is hungry but cannot eat, which what alcohol does, and that is why alcohol was called Qahwa.
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