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Czech
Etymology
Ultimately from Sinitic 茶. Cognates include Russian чай (čaj).
Pronunciation
Noun
čaj m inan
- tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
- kup sáčkový čaj ― buy a tea bag
- tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
- pila čaj ― she drank tea
- tea (a variety of the tea plant)
- zelený čaj ― green tea
- tea (by extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
- bylinkový čaj ― herbal tea
- mátový čaj ― peppermint tea
- heřmánkový čaj ― chamomile tea
Declension
Declension of čaj (soft masculine inanimate)
Derived terms
Further reading
- čaj in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- čaj in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Borrowed from Upper Sorbian čaj, from Turkish çay, from Chinese 茶 (chá).
Pronunciation
Noun
čaj m inan
- (literary) tea
Declension
Further reading
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “čaj”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (çay).
Pronunciation
Noun
čȁj m (Cyrillic spelling ча̏ј)
- tea
Declension
Derived terms
Slovak
Etymology
Ultimately from Sinitic 茶.
Pronunciation
Noun
čaj m inan (genitive singular čaju, nominative plural čaje, genitive plural čajov, declension pattern of dub)
- tea
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “čaj”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian čȁj, replacing tẹ́ (which is now dialectal).
Pronunciation
Noun
čȃj m inan
- tea
Inflection
Further reading
- “čaj”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Welsh Romani
Etymology
From Romani ćhaj.
Noun
čaj f
- female child, daughter, girl (only gypsies and gentlewomen)
Derived terms
References
- “čaj” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.