Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
RUBAIYAT
Etymology
Noun
rubaiyat
plural of rubai
Anagrams
• Buryatia
Source: Wiktionary
Ru*bai*yat", n. pl.; sing. Rubai. [Ar. ruba'iyah quatrian, pl. of ruba'iy having four radicals, fr. ruba' four.]
Definition: Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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