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Mocha

2 stages from Arabic to English.

Today it means a flavor combining coffee and chocolate, or a fine coffee variety
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Mokha
Arabic · medieval
"the port city of Mokha"
the name of a Red Sea port city in Yemen, a major coffee-trading hub
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mocha
English · 1700s
"a high-quality coffee variety"
came to describe the fine coffee shipped from that port
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