The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
CHETAH
cheetah, chetah, Acinonyx jubatus
(noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
chetah (plural chetahs)
Archaic form of cheetah. [rare after 1920]
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Source: Wiktionary
Che"tah, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Cheetah.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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