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brought about its final spelling through caufee and cojfe to our 

 present form coffee. It is apparent that these European forms are 

 adaptations of the Arabic term ^"^^ or qahwah which is the 

 name of the infusion and in Turkish is pronounced Kahveh. The 

 ''o'^ of European derivatives of the word represents the earlier "au^ 

 from the Arabic ''ahw'' or ''ahv/' ^ 



Philological Bibliography for *^^ or Qahwah: — D'Herbelot Bi- 

 bliotheque Orientale i (i777) 461. — Thompson Eng. and Urdu (or 

 Oordoo) School Diet. ed. 3 (1841) 22. — Forbes Diet. Hindustani-Eng. 

 and Eng.-Hind. part 2 (1848) 25. — Calcutta School-Bk. Soc. Press. 

 Romanized School Diet. Eng. Urdu ed. 7 (1867) 14. — ^Williams San- 

 skrit-Eng. Diet. (1872) 196. — Badger Eng.-Arab. Lexicon (1881) 146. 

 — ^Tregear Maori-Polynesian Compar. Diet. (1891) 139, 140. — Clough 

 Sinhalese-Eng. Diet. (1892). — Murray Oxford Diet. 2 (1893) 589, 

 590. — Yule and Burnell Hobson-Jobson Glossary of Colloq, and 

 Anglo-Ind. Words and Phrases and Kindred Terms. Etymological, Hist., 

 Geograph. and Discursive (1903) 232. 



Eastern Dialect Terms Synonymous with Coffee 



(Native and foreign introductions) 



Arabic: — Bun, buna, bon, ban, bunnu. 



Kahwah, kahwa, kuehwa, cahve, cahue, cahu, cachua, caova, coava, 



coave, cauwa, coho, caoua, chaube, chaoua, choava, kaffeh, kaffe, 



kavee, kavhi, kahue, caffe, coffey, coffe, coffi, cafier, caffeyer, caf- 



feyer d'Arabie, Caffayer arabique. 

 Egyptian: — Elkarie (or El Kari), elearco, and many of the Arabic 



terms. 

 African (various regions) : — Koffij. 



African (Golungo Alto region) : — Murianbambe or Muria Nbambe. 

 Persian : — Bun, bunna, bunco, bunnu. 



Qahva, kahwa, kahveh (also Turkish), tochem-keweh, cahwa, 



cahewa. 



Hindustani: — Bun, bun. Kahwah, kawa, coffi. 



^ In addition to the subject in hand, it is interesting to note the influence 

 of the Hindu language throughout Polynesia in the East, and Arabia to the West 

 of India. It is curious that I am unable to find the term in any form in Malaya. 

 I venture to suggest that this fact may be an additional unit of evidence to help 

 substantiate the theory that the ancestors of the Malayan people did not make 

 their appearance in that region of the world until a later period than the 

 Polynesians. 



