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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 262 — ALI THE CAIRENE AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN BAGHDAD.

Richard Francis Burton translation

This is the first mention of coffee, apparently introduced by the scribe: the word rendered “coffee-makers” is “Kahwajiyah”; an Arab. plur. of a Turkish termination (-ji) to an Arab. word “Kahwah” (before noticed).

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