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Doublet of chai and cha (and, distantly, lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.\n\n\nCognates\n\nThe word for “tea” in many languages is of Sinitic origin (due to China being the origin of the plant), and thus there are many cognates; see translations. These are from one of two proximate sources, reflected in the phonological shape: forms with a stop (e.g. /t/) are derived from Min Nan tê, while forms with a fricative (e.g. /tʃ/) are derived from other Sinitic languages, like Mandarin chá or Cantonese caa4 (all written as 茶). Different languages borrowed one or the other form (specific language and point in time varied), reflecting trade ties, generally Min Nan tê if by ocean trade from Fujian, Cantonese caa4 if by ocean trade from Guangdong, or northern Chinese chá if by overland trade or by ocean trade from India.\nThus Western and Northern European languages borrowed tê (with the exception of Portuguese, which uses chá; despite being by ocean trade, their source was in Macao, not Amoy), while chá borrowings are used over a very large geographical area of Eurasia and Africa: Southern and Eastern Europe, and on through Turkish, Arabic, North and East Africa, Persian, Central Asian, and Indic languages. In Europe the tê/chá line is Italian/Slovene, Hungarian/Romanian, German/Czech, Polish/Ukrainian, Baltics/Russian, Finnish/Karelian, Northern Sami/Inari Sami. tê was also borrowed in European trade stops in Southern India and coastal Africa, though chá borrowings are otherwise more prevalent in these regions, via Arabic or Indic, due to earlier trade. The situation in Southeast Asia is complex due to multiple influences, and some languages borrowed both forms, such as Malay teh and ca.", "From Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "tay" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.\nDarjeeling tea is grown in India." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.\nGo to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.\nNot for all the tea in China." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.\nWould you like some tea?" }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.\ncamomile tea; mint tea" }, { "mean": "(uncountable, in combination) Meat stock served as a hot drink.\nbeef tea" }, { "mean": "(countable, Commonwealth, northern US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, UK) A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, Commonwealth) Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.\nThe family were sitting round the table, eating their tea." }, { "mean": "(cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.\nAustralia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day." }, { "mean": "(slang, dated) Synonym of marijuana." }, { "mean": "(slang, especially gay slang and African-American Vernacular) Information, especially gossip.\nSpill the tea on that drama, hon." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To drink tea.\n1916 March 28, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, “Elizabeth”, in William Shawcross, editor, Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2012, page 32:We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!\n1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837, Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 319:I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E I sherry, and then tead and muffined' at 8.\n1921, Desmos of Delta Sigma Delta, page 41:We coffeed and tead and smoked a trench torch with Grand Master Browning, and cranked our Cadillac for another station." }, { "mean": "To take afternoon tea (the light meal).\n1877, The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)\nThe wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately" }, { "mean": "To give tea.\n1858, Benedict Cruiser, “Of the Agonising Process by which that which was once a Bower of Bliss was converted into a Cave of Despair”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, How I Tamed Mrs. Cruiser, London: James Blackwood, page 129:And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.\n1863, chapter I, in Hospital Transports. A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862., Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 25:In half an hour they had all been tea’d and coffeed and refreshed by the nurses, and shortly after were all undressed and put to bed clean and comfortable, and in a droll state of grateful wonder;\n1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, ; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, , page 213:But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn’t “teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!”\n1909, The Public, page 109:This gentleman was presented by Colonel C. E. S. Wood, and was entertained here—wined, dined, tead, breakfasted, coffeed and luncheoned—and we bought his pictures.\n2019, Jordaina Sydney Robinson, Dead Completely (Afterlife Adventures Series):After I’d tea’d everyone and Oz had breakfasted them," } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(plant): tea plant, tea tree, tea bush", "(leaves): tea leaves", "(beverage): see Thesaurus:tea", "(beverages similar to tea): herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane", "(a light meal): see afternoon tea & Thesaurus:meal" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }