kola

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
noun a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad

Presumably from a West African language. Compare Hausa gōr̃ò, Bambara goro, Temne kola, Mandinka kolo (“kola nut”).

In place of the kola of his people this personage wore a great white turban, touched with gold. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
He then amused himself by compiling a pamphlet on West African proverbs, one of which, picked up in the Yorubas country, ran, oddly enough: "Anger draweth arrows from the quiver: good words draw kolas from the bag." — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright
Also, their aggregate weight was exactly that of the stolen bars, less two ounces, which probably represented loss in melting.” “And the scrivelloes,” said I, “and the gum copal and the kola nuts; what was their bearing on the inquiry? — The blue scarab, R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

kola nut, kola nut tree, goora nut, Cola acuminata

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