<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents . Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article . Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page . (July 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> The history of coffee dates back to the 15th century, and possibly earlier with a number of reports and legends surrounding its first use . The native (undomesticated) origin of coffee is thought to have been Ethiopia, with several mythical accounts but no solid evidence . The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the early 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen, spreading soon to Mecca and Cairo . By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, South India (Coorg), Persia, Turkey, Horn of Africa, and northern Africa . Coffee then spread to the Balkans, Italy and to the rest of Europe, to South East Asia and then to America, despite bans imposed during the 15th century by religious leaders in Mecca and Cairo, and later by the Catholic Church . </P> <P> The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from the Arabic qahwah (قهوة). </P> <P> The Arabic word qahwah originally referred to a type of wine, whose etymology is given by Arab lexicographers as deriving from the verb qahā (قها, "to lack hunger") in reference to the drink's reputation as an appetite suppressant . The word qahwah is sometimes alternatively traced to the Arabic quwwa ("power, energy"), or to Kaffa, a medieval kingdom in Ethiopia whence the plant was exported to Arabia . These etymologies for qahwah have all been disputed, however . The name qahwah is not used for the berry or plant (the products of the region), which are known in Arabic as bunn and in Oromo as būn . Semitic had a root qhh "dark color", which became a natural designation for the beverage . According to this analysis, the feminine form qahwah (also meaning "dark in color, dull (ing), dry, sour") was likely chosen to parallel the feminine khamr (خمر, "wine"), and originally meant "the dark one". </P>

Where does the word coffee originally come from