Why is a coffee bean not called “coffee”?
Why is a coffee bean not called ‘coffee’ when it obviously originated from there, it seems they reversed it to the coffee drink. Even the Google search engine refers ‘Coffee’ as a drink and not the coffee bean itself.
Other fruits/vegetables are just called by [name], while their tree is called [name] [tree], they call a beverage name by the [fruit/vegetable name] [type of beverage]
(E.g: mango shake, lemon juice,)
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But when you heard coffee, it's not the coffee bean itself but the drink. Why is that? What might be the (possible) history behind this?
Actually, the word coffee originally referred to the drink, not the beans. It is a loanword that ultimately came from an Arabic word, which referred originally to mulled wine, later coffee.