kə noun
1.
( initial capital letter ) . Also, Mukha. a seaport in the Republic of Yemen on the Red Sea.
2.
a choice variety of coffee, originally grown in Arabia.
3.
a flavoring obtained from a coffee infusion or a combined infusion of chocolate and coffee.
4.
a brownish chocolate color.
5.
a glove leather, finer and thinner than doeskin, the best grades of which are made from Arabian goatskins.
Origin:
1765–75 for def 2
1765–75 for def 2
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| —n | |
| 1. | a strongly flavoured dark brown coffee originally imported from Arabia |
| 2. | a flavouring made from coffee and chocolate |
| 3. | a soft glove leather with a suede finish, made from goatskin or sheepskin |
| 4. | a. a dark brown colour |
| b. (as adjective): mocha shoes | |
| Mocha or Mokha (ˈmɒkə) | |
| —n | |
| a port in Yemen, on the Red Sea; in the former North Yemen until 1990: formerly important for the export of Arabian coffee. Pop: 14 562 (2005 est) | |
| Mokha or Mokha | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
mocha
1733, from Mocha, Red Sea port of Yemen, from which coffee was exported. Meaning "mixture of coffee and chocolate" first recorded 1849. As a shade of dark brown, it is attested from 1895.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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mocha
town, southwestern Yemen, on the Red Sea and the Tihamah coastal plain. Yemen's most renowned historic port, it lies at the head of a shallow bay between two headlands, with an unprotected anchorage 1.5 miles (2.5 km) offshore. It was long famous as Arabia's chief coffee-exporting centre; the term mocha and variations of the word have entered European languages as a synonym for the high-quality coffee of the species Coffea arabica, still grown in the Yemen Highlands and formerly exported through the town.
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