Etymology

kissa

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Today it means: Synonym of kissaten, a type of Japanese café. Full definition →

Japanese 喫茶
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from喫茶“tea house”
  2. English todaykissa

Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶 (kissa, “tea house”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.