thumb|A couple of coffee cups inserted into zarfs (, Swiss-made for Turkish market) A zarf (plural: zarfs, zarves; ; Arabic: ) is a cup holder, usually of ornamented metal, for a coffee cup without a handle (demitasse or fincan).
thumb|A couple of coffee cups inserted into zarfs (, Swiss-made for Turkish market) A zarf (plural: zarfs, zarves; ; Arabic: ) is a cup holder, usually of ornamented metal, for a coffee cup without a handle (demitasse or fincan).
==History== thumb|Collection of Ottoman era Turkish coffee zarfs, 18th or 19th century Although coffee was probably discovered in Ethiopia, it was in Turkey around the 13th century that it became popular as a beverage. As with the serving of tea in China and Japan, the serving of coffee in Turkey was a complex, ritualized process. It was served in small cups without handles (known as fincan, pronounced /finˈd͡ʒan/), which were placed in holders known as zarf (from the ; plural , meaning "container" or "envelope") to protect the cup and also the fingers of the drinker from the hot liquid.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).