mocha

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule. The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

noun

1. (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
   mocha fudge
3. (color) A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
   mocha:
4. A strong Arabian coffee.
5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
6. (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

adj

1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.