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.
TETRAGRAM
tetragram
(noun) a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tetragram (plural tetragrams)
A group of four letters.
Any of the 81 sets of solid lines (⚊ for Heaven), once-broken lines (⚋ for Earth) and twice-broken lines (? for Man) formed by combinations of four monograms (two digrams or bigrams, in other words) in the divination of the Taixuanjing.
Synonyms
• tetragraph
Coordinate terms
• monogram, digram, trigram, hexagram
Anagrams
• Margarett
Source: Wiktionary
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