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.
DECLARATOR
Noun
declarator (plural declarators)
(legal, Scotland) A legal declaration.
(programming) A construct in source code that declares something, such as a variable.
Source: Wiktionary
Dec"la*ra`tor, n. Etym: [L., an announcer.] (Scots Law)
Definition: A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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