Food & drinkRoot 4 of 12 in this field
ق-ه-و
coffee
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Words from this root
3 words in 3 patterns. Each pattern shapes the root's meaning in its own way.
فَعْلَة قَهْوَةٌ
coffee
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قَهْوَةٌ عَرَبِيَّةٌ Arabic coffee
Met in Coffee and friends
مَفْعَل مَقْهًى
café, coffee house
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- Plural
- مَقَاهٍ
the final و of the root becomes ـَى
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قَهْوَجِيٌّ
coffee server at a gathering (Saudi usage)
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the ending ـجِي is Turkish, not an Arabic pattern
How the patterns shape this root
قَهْوَة, coffee, is the heart of Saudi hospitality — قَهْوَةٌ عَرَبِيَّةٌ with cardamom, served with dates. The place of coffee on the pattern مَفْعَل is مَقْهَى, a café (plural مَقَاهٍ); the و of the root turns into the final ـَى. The person who pours it in a traditional gathering is the قَهْوَجِيّ, a word with a Turkish ending. This root has no everyday verb: it names a thing, not an action.