When coffee was first discovered, it wasn’t called coffee but ‘Qahhwat al-bun,’ which, when translated from Arabic, means ‘the wine of the bean.’ Over time, it was shortened to ‘Qhawa,’ and then the Turks later changed to ‘Kahve.’ It didn’t stop there as it became popular in the Dutch language as “koffie,” which is where its English equivalent was borrowed. Coffee found its way into the English dictionary sometime in the 16th century.