English 'cafeteria' from Mexican Spanish 'cafetería' (coffee shop), from Spanish 'café,' from Turkish 'kahve,' from Arabic 'qahwa' (coffee/wine).
A restaurant or dining room where customers serve themselves or are served from a counter.
From Mexican Spanish 'cafetería' (a coffee shop, a place where coffee is sold and consumed), from 'cafetero' (a coffee grower, a coffee seller), from 'café' (coffee), from Turkish 'kahve,' from Arabic 'qahwa' (قهوة, coffee; originally a type of wine or infusion). The Arabic 'qahwa' is of uncertain further origin: one etymology derives it from the Ethiopian region 'Kaffa,' reputed birthplace of the coffee plant; another connects it to a root meaning to lack appetite, describing coffee's appetite-suppressing effect. The word traveled
The word 'cafeteria' traveled from Arabic 'qahwa' through Turkish, into European languages as 'café/coffee,' then to Mexico as 'cafetería' (coffee shop), and finally back to the United States with the specific meaning of a self-service restaurant. The first American cafeteria opened in New York in 1885. Interestingly, Arabic 'qahwa' originally meant 'wine' — it was transferred