kahwa

From Malay kahwa, from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkahwa/ [ˈkah.wa]
• Rhymes: -ahwa
• Syllabification: kah‧wa

kahwa (countable and uncountable, plural kahwa-kahwa)

1. (chiefly obsolete) synonym of kopi (“coffee”)

• “kahwa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

kahwa (Jawi spelling قهوا, plural kahwa-kahwa)

1. coffee

   Synonym: kopi

• Indonesian: kahwa
• → Maranao: kahawa
• → Tausug: kahawa
• → Yakan: kahawa

• “kahwa”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017