How did the name of coffee come from?

It starts with the Ethiopian legend of the 5th century AD, when the sheep of the shepherd boy Kadi was so excited after eating a strange red fruit that Kadi and his companions could not help but give it a try, feeling refreshed and weary. Spread ten, ten hundred, this red fruit has since become a part of the local food culture, this red fruit is coffee. After that, coffee was introduced into the Arab world, with Yemen as the first stop. At that time, Arabs called coffee qahwa, which means good wine. Today's coffee is pronounced from this. The Turks changed qahwa into Turkish pronounced kahwe, the Venetians changed kahwe into Italian caffee, and finally the British replaced a with o to become what is now known as coffee.

The legend of coffee

There are many legends about the discovery of coffee, one of which is according to Roth de Neroy (1613-1707), a Roman linguist: around the sixth century AD, an Arab shepherd Caldai was herding sheep to the Isobian prairie. He was very excited and excited to see each goat. He was very surprised. After careful observation, he found it strange. The sheep were excited after eating some kind of red fruit. Carl tasted some of the fruit curiously and found that the fruit was often sweet and delicious, and he felt very refreshed after eating it. From then on, he often drove the sheep to eat this delicious fruit. Later, a Muslim passed by and picked some of the incredible red fruit to go home and share it with his parishioners, so its magical effect spread.

Other legends say that Shack Omar, a disciple of Sheckaldi, the guardian saint of the Arabian Peninsula, was a highly respected and beloved chief in Moka, but was expelled by his people for committing crimes. As a result, Shake Omar was exiled to Osama in the country, where he stumbled upon the fruit of coffee in 1258. One day, Omar was walking hungry in the mountains and saw birds with strange feathers on the branches pecking at the fruit of the trees. He took the fruit back and boiled it with water, only to emit a rich and attractive fragrance, and the original feeling of exhaustion was eliminated after drinking it, full of vitality. Omar collected many of these magical fruits, and when she met someone who was sick, she made the fruit into soup for them to drink and refreshed her spirit. Because he did good everywhere and was loved by believers, his sins were soon forgiven, and when he returned to Mocha, he was praised for finding this fruit, and people did not worship him as a saint. At that time, the magic cure was said to be coffee.

Apart from the two legends that people like to talk about, it is impossible to tell when coffee will become a drink in people's lives. But according to ancient Arabic texts, in the 11th century, Muslim precepts forbade believers to drink, and it was popular in the Arab region to boil sun-dried coffee beans into soup and use them as stomach medicine. The believers found that the coffee juice had a refreshing effect, so they used it as an inspiring drink instead of alcohol, and spread the drink through believers, from Arabia to Egypt, centering on Mecca, the Muslim holy land. And then to Sri Lanka, Iran, Turkey and other places. After the 13th century, Arabs knew how to dry and bake raw coffee beans, mash them with a mortar and pestle, and then boil them with water, thus getting purer coffee.