Start at a port: sacks of coffee leaving a harbour town on the Red Sea, and the beans inside carrying a taste so close to chocolate that people notice it. The town's name travels with the beans. First it names that coffee, then it names any coffee-and-chocolate mixture, and finally it names the soft brown colour in the cup.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry derives the word from Mocha, a Red Sea port in Yemen, from Arabic al-muḵā, because it was a major coffee marketplace under Ottoman rule, and notes that the beans often had a chocolaty flavour, which is how the name spread to coffee-and-chocolate mixtures.
封包裡的 Wiktionary 記錄說，這個字來自葉門紅海邊的港口 Mocha（阿拉伯文 al-muḵā）。鄂圖曼時期那裡是咖啡的大集散地，運出去的豆子常帶巧克力味，於是這個地名後來也被拿去指任何咖啡加巧克力的組合。
Wiktionary, "mocha"
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