кагва

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). First attested in c. 1726–1729.

Noun

кагва • (kahva) f inan

1. coffee

Descendants

• Belarusian: ка́ва (káva)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ка́ва (káva), ка́фа (káfa)
• Ukrainian: ка́ва (káva)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “кагва”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 354