tea/translations

This page contains translations for tea. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

dried leaves of tea plant

Afrikaans: tee (af)
Alutiiq: cayuq
Amharic: ሻይ (šay)
Arabic: شَاي (ar) m (šāy)
Chadian Arabic: شاهي (šāhi)

Hijazi Arabic: شاهي m (šāhi)

Moroccan Arabic: أتاي m (ʔatāy), تاي m (tāy)

South Levantine Arabic: شاي m (šāy)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܟ̰ܵܝ (chāi)
Armenian: թեյ (hy) (tʻey)
Assamese: চাহ পাত n (sah pat)
Asturian: té (ast) m
Bashkir: сәй (səy)
Bengali: চা (bn) (ca)
Bulgarian: чай (bg) m (čaj)
Burmese: လက်ဖက်ခြောက် (my) (lakhpakhkrauk)
Cebuano: tsa
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵜⴰⵢ m (atay)
Central Melanau: tiyik
Cham:
Eastern Cham: caiy
Chinese:
Dungan: ца (ca)

Eastern Min: 茶 (da)

Mandarin: 茶葉／茶叶 (zh) (cháyè), 茶 (zh) (chá)
Czech: čaj (cs) m
Danish: te (da) c
Dutch: thee (nl) m
Dzongkha: ཇ (ja)
Faroese: te n
Finnish: tee (fi), teenlehdet pl
French: thé (fr) m
Galician: té (gl)
Georgian: ჩაი (ka) (čai)
German: Teeblatt (de) n, Teeblätter (de) pl, Tee (de) m
Greek: τσάι (el) n (tsái)
Greenlandic: tii
Gujarati: ચા (gu) (cā)
Hebrew: עלי תה m (aléi té)
Hindi: चाय (hi) m or f (cāy)
Hungarian: tealevél (hu)
Icelandic: te (is) n
Ido: teo (io)
Indonesian: teh (id)
Italian: tè (it) m
Japanese: 茶葉 (ja) (ちゃば, chaba), 茶 (ja) (ちゃ, cha)
Kannada: ಚಹಾ (kn) (cahā)
Kapampangan: cha
Khmer: ស្លឹកតែ (slək tae)
Konkani: च्या (cyā), ಚ್ಯಾ (cyā), ച്യാ (cyā)
Korean: 차(茶) (ko) (cha), 찻잎 (channip), 다엽(茶葉) (dayeop)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چای (çay), چا (ça)

Northern Kurdish: çay (ku) f, ça (ku)
Ladino: צ׳יי (chai)
Lao: ຊາ (lo) (sā)
Latin: (New Latin) thea (la) f
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Lü: ᦋᦱ (tsaa), ᦌᦱᧉ (saa²)
Macedonian: чај (mk) m (čaj)
Malay: teh (ms)
Malayalam: ചായ (ml) (cāya)
Manchu: ᠴᠠᡳ (cai)
Maori: tī (mi), tī raurau
Marathi: चहा (mr) (cahā)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цай (mn) (caj)

Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠢ (čai)
Navajo: chʼil ahwééh
Nepali: चिया (ciyā)
Nivkh: чай (ț’aj)
Norman: thée m (Jersey, Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m

Nynorsk: te m
Occitan: tè (oc) m
Odia: ଚା (or) (cā)
Ojibwe: aniibiish, aniibiishan pl
Pannonian Rusyn: тея f (teja), чай m (čaj)
Pela: faʔ⁵⁵ kʰjɛʔ⁵⁵
Persian:
Dari: چَای (fa) (čāy)

Iranian Persian: چای (fa) (čây)
Polish: herbata (pl) f
Portuguese: folha de chá f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਚਾਹ f (cāh)

Shahmukhi: چاہ f (cāh)
Romanian: ceai (ro) m
Russian: чай (ru) m (čaj)
Rwanda-Rundi: icyayi
Santali: ᱪᱚ (cô)
Scottish Gaelic: tì f, teatha f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ча̏ј m

Roman: čȁj (sh) m
Shan: ၼဵင်ႈႁႅင်ႈ (shn) (nāeng hēng)
Shor: шай
Sicilian: te (scn) m
Silesian: tyj m
Slovak: čaj (sk) m
Slovene: čaj (sl) m
Somali: shaah m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tej m, čaj m (literary)

Upper Sorbian: čaj m
Sotho: tee sg, ditee pl
Spanish: hoja de té f
Swahili: chai (sw)
Sylheti: ꠌꠣꠅꠞ ꠙꠣꠔ꠆ꠔꠣ (saor fatta)
Tagalog: tsa
Tamil: தேயிலை (ta) (tēyilai)
Taos: téne
Tashelhit: ⴰⵜⴰⵢ m (atay)
Telugu: తేయాకు (te) (tēyāku)
Thai: ชา (th) (chaa), ใบ ชา (bai chaa)
Tibetan: ཇ (ja)
Tlingit: cháayu
Tsonga: tiya
Turkish: çay (tr)
Ukrainian: чай (uk) m (čaj)
Urdu: چائے m or f (cāe)
Uyghur: چاي (ug) (chay)
Uzbek: choy (uz)
Vietnamese: trà (vi), chè (vi), lá trà, lá chè
Walloon: té (wa) m
Welsh: (dail) te (cy)
Wolof: warga (wo)
Yup'ik: caayuq

drink made from leaves of tea plant

Abaza: чай (ćaj)
Abkhaz: ачаи (ačaj)
Adyghe: щай (śaj), щайуц (śajuc)
Afrikaans: tee (af)
Ainu: チャ (ca), ウセイ (úsey)
Alaba: šáayit
Alabama: tìika
Albanian: çaj (sq) m
Aleut: chaayuх̑
Amharic: ሻይ (šay)
Apache:
Jicarilla: dééh
Arabic: شَاي (ar) m (šāy)
Chadian Arabic: شاهي (šāhi)

Hijazi Arabic: شاهي m (šāhi)

Moroccan Arabic: أتاي m (ʔatāy), تاي m (tāy)

South Levantine Arabic: شاي m (šāy)
Armenian: թեյ (hy) (tʻey)
Assamese: চাহ n (sah), ফালাপ (phalap)
Asturian: té (ast) m
Avar: чай (čaj)
Azerbaijani: çay (az)
Balinese: téh
Bashkir: сәй (səy)
Basque: te (eu)
Belarusian: гарба́та f (harbáta), чай m (čaj)
Bengali: চা (bn) (ca)
Bole: shayi
Bouyei: xaz
Breton: te (br) m
Bulgarian: чай (bg) m (čaj)
Burmese: လက်ဖက်ရည် (my) (lakhpak-rany), လက်ဖက် (my) (lakhpak), လ္ဘက် (la.bhak)
Buryat: сай (saj)
Carpathian Rusyn: чай m (čaj), тей m (tej)
Catalan: te (ca) m
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵜⴰⵢ m (atay)
Cham:
Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamorro: cha
Chechen: чай (čaj)
Chichewa: tiyi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 茶 (yue) (caa⁴)

Dungan: ца (ca)

Eastern Min: 茶 (dà)

Gan: 茶 (ca²)

Hakka: 茶 (chhà)

Hokkien: 茶 (zh-min-nan) (tê)

Jin: 茶 (ca¹)

Mandarin: 茶 (zh) (chá), 茶水 (zh) (cháshuǐ) (cheap or free tea in Chinese restaurants)

Northern Min: 茶 (dâ)

Wu: 茶 (⁶zo), 茶葉茶／茶叶茶 (⁶zo-yiq-zo)

Xiang: 茶 (za²)
Chuvash: чей (čej)
Cornish: té m
Crimean Tatar: şay, çay
Czech: čaj (cs) m
Danish: te (da) c, the (da) c (former spelling. Still commonly seen.)
Dargwa: чай (čaj)
Dhivehi: ސައި (sai)
Dutch: thee (nl) m
Dzongkha: ཇ (ja)
Eastern Cham: caiy
Erzya: цяй (ćaj)
Esperanto: teo (eo)
Estonian: tee (et)
Faroese: te n
Fiji Hindi: cha (hif)
Fijian: te (fj)
Finnish: tee (fi)
French: thé (fr) m
Gagauz: çay
Galician: té (gl) m
Georgian: ჩაი (ka) (čai)
German: Tee (de) m
Greek: τσάι (el) n (tsái)
Greenlandic: tii
Gujarati: ચા (gu) (cā)
Haitian Creole: te
Hausa: shayi (ha), ti (ha)
Hawaiian: kī
Hebrew: תֵּה (he) m (te)
Hindi: चाय (hi) m or f (cāy), चा (hi) m (cā)
Hungarian: tea (hu)
Hunsrik: Scha m
Icelandic: te (is) m
Ido: teo (io)
Inari Sami: teejâ, čee
Indonesian: teh (id), ca (id)
Ingrian: caaju, caju
Ingush: чай (čaj)
Interlingua: the (ia)
Inuktitut: ᑏ (tii)
Inupiaq: saiyu, tii, saigu, saayu, chaiyu, saiyu, chaiyu, saayu
Inupiaq: tii
Iranun: please add this translation if you can
Irish: tae (ga) m
Italian: tè (it) m
Japanese: 茶 (ja) (ちゃ, cha), お茶 (ja) (おちゃ, o-cha), 紅茶 (ja) (こうちゃ, kōcha) (black tea, lit.: "red"), ティー (ja) (tī), 上がり (ja) (agari), 上がり花 (agaribana), 出花 (ja) (debana)
Kabardian: шай (šaj)
Kalasha: čay
Kalmyk: цә (tsä)
Kannada: ಚಹಾ (kn) (cahā), ಟೀ (kn) (ṭī)
Karachay-Balkar: шай (şay)
Karakalpak: chay (kaa)
Karelian: čuaju
Kashmiri: چائ
Kashubian: arbata f
Kazakh: шай (kk) (şai)
Khakas: чай (çay), чей (çey)
Khasi: sha
Khmer: តែ (km) (tae), ទឹកតែ (tɨk tae)
Komi-Permyak: чай (ćaj)
Konkani: चा (cā), ಚಾ (cā), ചാ (cā)
Korean: 차(茶) (ko) (cha)
Kumyk: чай (çay)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چای (çay), چا (ça)

Northern Kurdish: ça (ku) f, çay (ku) f
Kyrgyz: чай (ky) (cay)
Ladino: chay m, גאיי m
Lao: ຊາ (lo) (sā), ນ້ຳຊາ (nam sā)
Latgalian: čajs m
Latin: thea (la) f
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Lezgi: чай (čaj)
Lithuanian: arbata f
Lote: ti
Lü: ᦋᦱ (tsaa), ᦌᦱᧉ (saa²), ᦓᧄᧉᦋᦱ (nam²tsaa), ᦓᧄᧉᦌᦱᧉ (nam²saa²)
Luganda: caayi
Lushootseed: tiac
Luxembourgish: Téi m
Macedonian: чај (mk) m (čaj)
Maguindanao: ti
Malagasy: dite (mg)
Malay: teh (ms), ca (ms)
Malayalam: ചായ (ml) (cāya)
Maltese: te
Manchu: ᠴᠠᡳ (cai)
Manx: tey m
Maori: tī (mi), tī (mi)
Maranao: sa
Marathi: चहा (mr) f (cahā)
Mi'kmaq: p'tewei inan
Minangkabau: please add this translation if you can
Mingrelian: ჩაი (čai)
Mirandese: xá
Moksha: чай (čaj)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цай (mn) (caj)

Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠢ (čai)
Mudburra: diyi
Navajo: dééh, chʼil ahwééh
Nepali: चिया (ciyā)
Nheengatu: xaa
Nivkh: ча (ț’a)
Norman: thée m (Jersey, Guernsey)
Northern Altai: цай (cay)
Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ся̄й (sâ̄j)
Northern Sami: deadja
Northern Thai: ᨶ᩶ᩣᩴᨪᩣ, ᨪᩣ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m

Nynorsk: te m
Nuosu: ꆿꒉ (lat yy)
Occitan: tè (oc) m
Odia: ଚା (or) (cā)
Ojibwe: aniibiishaaboo
Osage: hpéženíi, hpéže mąhká
Ossetian: цай (caj)
Ottoman Turkish: چای (čāy)
Pannonian Rusyn: тея f (teja), чай m (čaj)
Papiamentu: té
Pashto: چاي (čāy), چی (ps) m (čay), چاى m (čāy)
Pela: faʔ⁵⁵ kʰjɛʔ⁵⁵
Persian:
Dari: چَای (fa) (čāy)

Iranian Persian: چای (fa) (čây)
Piedmontese: té m
Plautdietsch: Tee m
Polish: herbata (pl) f
Portuguese: chá (pt) m
Punjabi: ਚਾਹ f (cāh)
Quechua: tiy, q’uñi yaku
Rohingya: saá
Romani: drab
Romanian: ceai (ro) n
Romansch: te m, té m, tè m
Russian: чай (ru) m (čaj)
Samogitian: erbeta f
Sanskrit: चाय (sa) n (cāya)
Santali: ᱪᱚ (cô), ᱪᱟ (ca)
Scottish Gaelic: tì m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ча̏ј m

Roman: čȁj (sh) m
Shan: ၼမ်ႉၼဵင်ႈ (shn) (nâ̰m nāeng)
Shona: tii
Shor: шай
Silesian: tyj m
Sindhi: چانھ (čānhi), چانهہ
Sinhalese: තේ (si) (tē), තෝ (tō)
Skolt Sami: čee
Slovak: čaj (sk) m
Slovene: čaj (sl) m
Somali: shaah m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tej m, čaj m (literary)

Upper Sorbian: čaj m
Sotho: tee
Southern Altai: чай (čay)
Spanish: té (es) m, cha (es) m (Philippines)
Sundanese: ᮈᮔ᮪ᮒᮦᮂ (entéh)
Swahili: chai (sw) class 9
Swedish: te (sv) n
Sylheti: ꠌꠣ (sa), ꠌꠣꠢ (sah)
Tabasaran: чай (čaj)
Tagalog: tsaa, tsa, saa
Tajik: чой (tg) (čoy)
Tamil: தேநீர் (ta) (tēnīr)
Tashelhit: ⴰⵜⴰⵢ m (atay)
Tatar: чәй (tt) (çäy)
Tausug: tī
Telugu: తేనీరు (te) (tēnīru), టీ (te) (ṭī)
Tetum: xá
Thai: ชา (th) (chaa), น้ำชา (th) (náam-chaa)
Tibetan: ཇ (ja)
Tigrinya: ሻሂ (ti) (šahi)
Tîrî: tee
Tlingit: chááyu
Tofa: цай
Tswana: tee (tn)
Tumbuka: tiyi
Turkish: çay (tr)
Turkmen: çaý
Tuvan: шай (şay), цай (tsay)
Udmurt: чай (ćaj)
Ukrainian: чай (uk) m (čaj)
Urdu: چائے m or f (cāe)
Uyghur: چاي (ug) (chay)
Uzbek: choy (uz)
Veps: čai
Vietnamese: trà (vi) (茶 (vi)), chè (vi) (茶 (vi), 𦷨), nước trà (vi), nước chè
Vilamovian: tyy m
Volapük: tied (vo)
Võro: tii, tsäi
Walloon: té (wa) m
Welsh: te (cy) m
West Frisian: tee c
Western Panjabi: چاء (pnb) f, چاہ (cāh)
Wolof: àttaaya
Xhosa: iti class 5/6
Yakan: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: чэй (cey)
Yiddish: טיי f (tey)
Yonaguni: サー (saː)
Yoruba: tíì
Yup'ik: caayuq
Zaghawa: shay
Zangskari: ཇ (ja)
Zhuang: caz
Zulu: itiye (zu) class 5/6

cup of this drink

Afrikaans: koppie tee
Arabic: فِنْجَان شَاي m (finjān šāy)
Armenian: թեյ (hy) (tʻey)
Bulgarian: ча́ша чай f (čáša čaj)
Czech: čaj (cs) m, šálek čaje m
Danish: kop te c
Faroese: temunnur m, tedussur m, temuður m
Finnish: tee (fi), kuppi teetä, teekupillinen
French: tasse de thé f
German: Tasse Tee f
Hebrew: ספל תה m (séfel té)
Hungarian: csésze tea
Icelandic: tebolli m
Irish: tae (ga) m
Italian: tè (it) m
Japanese: お茶一杯 (おちゃいっぱい, o-cha ippai)
Korean: 차 한 잔 (cha han jan)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پیاڵەیەکی چای (pyalleyekî çay)

Northern Kurdish: çay (ku) f, piyaleyeke çayê f
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Lithuanian: arbata f
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} шолја чај f (šolja čaj)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m
Polish: filiżanka herbaty f
Portuguese: xícara de chá f
Romanian: ceai (ro) n, ceașcă de ceai f
Russian: ча́шка ча́я f (čáška čája), ча́шка ча́ю f (čáška čáju)
Slovak: čaj (sk) m
Spanish: taza de té f
Swedish: kopp te c
Thai: ชา ถ้วย หนึ่ง, ชา หนึ่ง ถ้วย
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} bardak çay
Ukrainian: ча́шка ча́ю f (čáška čáju)
Welsh: paned, dysgled

drink made from other plants

Afrikaans: tee (af)
Arabic: شَاي (ar) m (šāy)
Asturian: fervinchu m
Bulgarian: отва́ра (bg) f (otvára)
Czech: čaj (cs) m
Danish: te (da) c
Faroese: te n
Finnish: tee (fi), haude (fi), yrttitee (fi)
French: tisane (fr) f
German: Tee (de) m
Hebrew: תה צמחים m (té tsmahim)
Hungarian: tea (hu)
Italian: tisana (it) f
Japanese: 茶 (ja) (ちゃ, cha)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چای (çay), چا (ça)

Northern Kurdish: çay (ku) f, ça (ku) f
Latin: decoctum (la) n
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Macedonian: чај (mk) m (čaj)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m
Polish: herbata (pl) f
Portuguese: infusão (pt) f
Romanian: ceai (ro) n
Russian: чай (ru) m (čaj)
Slovak: čaj (sk) m
Slovene: čaj (sl) m
Spanish: (other plants) té (es) m, cha (es) m (Philippines)
Swedish: te (sv) n, brygd (sv) c, infusion (sv) c (natural medicine)
Ukrainian: чай (uk) m (čaj)
Welsh: trwyth

cup of drink made from other plants

Arabic: فِنْجَان شَاي m (finjān šāy)
Czech: čaj (cs) m, šálek (cs) čaje (cs) m
Finnish: yrttitee (fi)
Hebrew: ספל תה צמחים m (séfel té tsmahim)
Italian: tisana (it) f
Japanese: 茶 (ja) (ちゃ, cha), お茶 (ja) (おちゃ, o-cha)
Korean: 차(茶) (ko) (cha)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: çay (ku) f, çaya biharatan f
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} шолја чај f (šolja čaj)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m
Polish: herbata (pl) f
Portuguese: chá (pt) m
Romanian: ceai (ro) n, ceașcă de ceai f
Russian: ча́шка ча́я f (čáška čája), ча́шка ча́ю f (čáška čáju)
Slovak: čaj (sk) m
Slovene: čaj (sl) m

light afternoon meal

Bulgarian: чай (bg) m (čaj)
Finnish: välipala (fi), kahvit (fi) pl, iltapäiväkahvit
French: goûter (fr) m
German: Kaffee (de) m, Jause (de) f (Austria)
Hungarian: tea (hu), uzsonna (hu)
Irish: tae (ga) m
Japanese: おやつ (ja) (oyatsu), お茶 (ja) (おちゃ, o-cha)
Latvian: tēja (lv) f
Maori: tī (mi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: te (no) m, formiddagste m, ettermiddagste m
Polish: podwieczorek (pl) m
Portuguese: chá da tarde m
Russian: по́лдник (ru) m (póldnik)
Slovak: olovrant m
Spanish: merienda (es) f, (Peru) lonche (es) m, (Chile, Colombia) onces m pl
Swedish: fika (sv) c
Ukrainian: полу́день m (polúdenʹ), полу́денок m (polúdenok)
Welsh: te (cy)

main evening meal — see dinner

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Maori: (one or both of the meal senses) ^{(please verify)} hapa
Marathi: ^{(please verify)} चहा (mr) (cahā)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} tied (vo)

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