Meaning

noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers

originBorrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of kꜣp (“to cense”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0