čaj

See also: caj and çaj

Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Sinitic . Cognates include Russian чай (čaj).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃaj/

Noun

čaj m inan

  1. tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
    kup šáčkový čaj
  2. tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
    pila čaj
  3. tea (a variety of the tea plant)
    černé čaje
  4. tea (by extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
    bylinkový čaj
    mátový čaj
    heřmánkový čaj
Declension

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 Turkish çay, from Chinese (chá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaj/

Noun

čaj m

  1. (literary) tea

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish çay), from Sinitic .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃâj/

Noun

čȁj m (Cyrillic spelling ча̏ј)

  1. tea

Declension

Derived terms


Slovak

Etymology

From Russian чай (čaj), from Sinitic (chá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃaj/

Noun

čaj m (genitive singular čaju, nominative plural čaje, genitive plural čajov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • čaj in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian čaj, borrowed to replace tẹ́ (which is now dialectal), which had been borrowed from German Tee.

Noun

čáj m inan (genitive čája, nominative plural čáji)

  1. tea

Declension

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