茶
Chinese
forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Loloish *la¹ (tea) inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (leaf, tea, flat thing).
Origin
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
*s-la
Gloss
leaf, tea, flat thing
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cha English
- chasericulture English
- tsaiju Finnish
- чай Russian
- чайник Russian
- чайный Russian
- чаёк Russian
- chá Portuguese
- चाय Sanskrit
- شاي Arabic
- चा Hindi
- ceai Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- чой Persian
- چای Persian
- چایخانه Persian
- τσάι Greek (modern)
- çay Turkish
- çaycı Turkish
- çaydanlık Turkish
- tsaa Tagalog
- ca Malay
- လက်ဖက် Burmese
- шай Kazakh
- шайнама Kazakh
- шайхана Kazakh
- چای Ottoman Turkish
- چای Ottoman Turkish
- চাহ Assamese
- चाय Chinese
- ស្លឹក Chinese
- 茶葉 Chinese
- ચા Gujarati
- ચાદાની Gujarati
- čaj Slovak
- chai Swahili
- चहा Marathi
- цай Mongolian
- চা Bengali
- چای Urdu
- *s-la Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- çay Northern Kurdish
- čai Veps
- *slaʔ Proto-Mon-Khmer
- chay Ladino
- גאיי Ladino
- ཇ Tibetan
- شاهي Hijazi Arabic
- çay Crimean Tatar
- *s-laːʔ Proto-Vietic
- čaj Upper Sorbian
- čee Skolt Sami
- 茶 Mandarin
- چاي Gulf Arabic
- çaý Turkmen
- ᠴᠠᡳ Manchu
- چای Pashto, Pushto
- сәй Middle Chinese
- çay Zazaki
- 茶 Cantonese
- *hlaᴮ Proto-Karen
- ꠍꠣ Sylheti
- ᠴᠠᠢ Classical Mongolian
- caayuq Yup'ik
- zaah Iu Mien
- ᱪᱟ Santali
- ચાય Kachchi
- cha Kapampangan
- *slaː Proto-Bahnaric
- laː¹ Mang
- *la¹ Proto-Loloish
- chaiyu Inupiaq
- saayu Inupiaq
- saigu Inupiaq
- saiyu Inupiaq
- сайый Alutor
- саюк Alutor
- ꆿ Sichuan Yi, Nuosu
- tsaa Brooke's Point Palawano
- साहा Bodo (India)
- شاهي Libyan Arabic
- cai Ngazidja Comorian
- tʃaaj Ubykh
- 茶 zhx