Tea Calling
What is tea called in different languages across the globe
| ›› In different international languages using Tea or Te as derivative | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Name | Language | Name |
| Afrikaans | tee | Galician Spanish | té |
| Armenian, Catalan | te | Hebrew | תה,te |
| Danish | te | Indonesian | תה, te or tei |
| Icelandic | te | Irish | teh |
| Faroese | te | Italian | tae |
| Swedish | te | Scientific Latin | tè |
| Czech | té or thé | Latvian | thea |
| Welsh | te | Malay | teh |
| Norwegian | te | Polish | tēja |
| Dutch | té or thé, čaj is used nowadays | Lithuanian | teh |
| English | tea | Scots Gaelic | tì, teatha |
| Hungarian | tea | French Singhalese | thé |
| Estonian Finnish (West) Frisian German | tee | Esperanto | teo |
| ›› Indian Languages | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Name | Language | Name |
| Bengali | (চা )Cha | Marathi | Chahaa |
| Gujarati | cha | Oriya | Cha |
| *Hindi | chai, beverage | Tamil | theneer |
| Kannada | Chaha | Telugu | ṭī |
| Malayalam | Chaya | Urdu | چاى |
| Nepali | Cheeya | ||
| ›In different international languages using cha or chai derivatives | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Name | Language | Name |
| Albanian | çaj | Persian | چای chaay |
| Amharic | pronounced shy | Portuguese | chá |
| Arabic | shai | Romanian | ceai |
| Assyrian , Bulgarian | Swahili | Cebuano | tsa |
| Ukrainian | pronounced chai | Russian | чай, chai |
| Azeri | çay | Serbian | чај chaj |
| Slovene | čaj | Somali | shaax |
| Capampangan | cha | Tagalog | tsaa |
| English | char, slang | Thai | ชา, cha |
| Georgian | chai | Tibetan | ཇ་ja |
| Greek | tsái | Tlingit | cháayu |
| Japanese | 茶, ちゃ, cha | Turkish | çay |
| Kazakh | шай shai | Uzbek | choy |
| Korean | 茶,차 cha | Vietnamese | trà and chè |
| Mongolian | цай, tsai | ||
*In USA chai is used to refer almost exclusively to the Indian chai (or masala chai)
Every nation in creation has its favorite drink, France is famous for her wine, its beer in Germany. Turkey loves her coffee, and they serve it blacker than ink; Russians love their vodka, England loves her tea.
John Bladrey
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