A strong, slightly bitter coffee that originally referred only to a very fine coffee grown in Arabia and shipped from Yemen's port of Mocha Mocha also refers, nowadays, to a hot coffee-and-chocolate beverage
{i} variety of coffee; flavor of coffee mixed with chocolate; brownish chocolate color
[ 'mO-k& ] (noun.) 1773. From Mocha, Yemen|Mocha, Yemen]], a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic المخا (al-Mukhā), due to its being 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.