Tea

Noun



 * 1)  The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.
 * Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.
 * 1)  The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
 * Would you like some tea?
 * 1)  A variety of the tea plant
 * Darjeeling is a tea from India.
 * 1)  By extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
 * camomile tea
 * 1)   A cup of any one of these drinks, often with a small amount of milk or cream added and sweetened with sugar or honey.
 * 2)  US A glass of iced tea, typically served with ice cubes and sometimes with a slice or wedge of lemon.
 * 3)    A light meal eaten mid-afternoon, typically with tea.
 * Kids, your tea’s on the table!
 * 1)    The main evening meal, irrespective of whether tea is drunk with it.
 * The family were sitting round the table, having their tea.
 * 1)  The break in play between the second and third sessions.
 * Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
 * 1)  Marijuana.
 * 2) * 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 74:
 * Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
 * 1) * 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 Mar 1947:
 * Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.

Synonyms

 * tea leaves
 * herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane

Derived terms

 * afternoon tea
 * black tea
 * camomile tea
 * cream tea
 * cup of tea
 * fruit tea
 * green tea
 * herb tea, herbal tea
 * herbal tea
 * high tea
 * iced tea
 * Long Island iced tea
 * morning tea
 * mint tea
 * red tea
 * rooibos tea
 * sugar honey ice tea
 * tea and toaster


 * teabag
 * teaberry
 * teaboy
 * tea break
 * tea caddy
 * teacake
 * tea cart
 * tea ceremony
 * tea cloth
 * tea cosy
 * teacup
 * teahouse, tea house
 * teakettle
 * tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang)
 * tea leaves
 * tea pad
 * tea party


 * tea plant
 * teapot
 * tea room
 * tea service
 * teaspoon
 * tea strainer
 * teatime
 * tea towel
 * tea tray
 * tea trolley
 * tea urn
 * tea wagon
 * white tea

Verb

 * 1) To drink tea
 * 2) To take afternoon tea (the light meal)

Adjectives for Tea
numberless (pi); well-creamed; smuggled; elemental; contraband; rare; licorice; softened; melodious; perfumed; fragrant; aphrodisiac.

Verbs
abstain from—; addict to—; brew—; concoct—; dispatch—; dispense—; drain—; entertain at—; flavor—; gulp—; ice—; imbibe—; import—; quaff—; sip—; spice—; strain—; sweeten—; swill down—; —appeases; —moistens; —quenches; —revives; —simmers; —stimulates; —thickens.

Thesaurus
DET, DMT, LSD, Mary, Mary Jane, STP, THC, TV dinner, acid, afternoon tea, alfresco meal, antidepressant, ataractic, barbecue, boo, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, cannabis, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, diner, dinner, elevenses, fish fry, gage, ganja, grass, hallucinogen, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, high tea, hot luncheon, joint, kava, lunch, luncheon, marijuana, mash, meat breakfast, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, morning glory seeds, petit dejeuner, peyote, picnic, pot, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, stick, supper, tea break, tea party, teatime, tiffin, tranquilizer, weed, wiener roast, wienie roast

Etymology
Originally from (POJ: tê, Chinese: 茶, bitmap: ), the word was brought to the west by the Dutch East India Company with the spelling thee. Many Western languages have this pronunciation at the root of their words for tea. The word for tea in other Chinese dialects such as Mandarin (Pinyin: chá) and Cantonese (Yale: cha4) was exported as “chai” to many of the Indo-Iranian languages, as well as Russian and Arabic.

"The World Atlas of Language Structures Online" has a special chapter dedicated to the origin of the word for tea in different languages:

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চাহ
 * Bengali: চা
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Teeblatt, Teeblätter
 * Greek: τσάι
 * Greenlandic: tii
 * Hebrew: עלי תה (aléi té)
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ಚಹಾ
 * Korean: 차 (茶, cha), 찻잎 (茶-잎, channip), 다엽 (茶葉, dayŏb)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: чај (čaj), чаеви (čáevi)
 * Malay:
 * Malay:


 * Malayalam: ചായ
 * Navajo:
 * Occitan: tè
 * Ojibwe: aniibiish, aniibiishan
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: folha de chá
 * Russian:
 * Santali:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чај
 * Roman: čaj
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: hoja de té
 * Swahili:
 * Tamil: தேநீர்
 * Taos: téne
 * Telugu: తేనీరు
 * Thai: (chaa),  (bai chaa)
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: چاي
 * Uzbek: choy
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: (dail) te
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: (dail) te


 * Afrikaans: tee
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሻይ
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চাহ
 * Asturian: te
 * Azeri: çay
 * Basque: te
 * Belarusian: гарбата, чай
 * Bengali: চা
 * Bulgarian: чай
 * Burmese: လက်ဖက်ရည်, ရည်နွေးကြမ်း
 * Catalan: te
 * Chamorro: cha
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 紅茶, 红茶
 * Min Nan:
 * Cornish: té
 * Crimean Tatar: şay
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: τσάι
 * Gujarati: ચા
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hausa: shááyìì, ti
 * Hawaiian: kī
 * Hebrew: תה
 * Hindi:, चा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: the
 * Inuktitut:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ティー, 紅茶
 * Kannada: ಚಹಾ
 * Khasi:
 * Khmer: តែ, ទឹកតែ
 * Konkani:
 * Korean: 차 (茶)
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: thea
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Luganda: caayi
 * Luxembourgish: Téi
 * Macedonian: чај
 * Malagasy: dite
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ചായ
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian: цай
 * Navajo: ,
 * Nepali: चिया
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: aniibiishaaboo
 * Papiamentu: té
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: te, té, tè
 * Russian: чай
 * Sami: deadja
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чај
 * Roman: čaj
 * Shona: tii
 * Sinhalese:, තෝ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chai
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tsaá
 * Tajik: чой
 * Tamil: தேநீர்
 * Telugu: తేనీళ్ళు
 * Tetum: xá
 * Thai: ชา
 * Tibetan: ཇ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çay
 * Ukrainian: чай
 * Urdu:, چا
 * Vietnamese: trà (茶), chè
 * Volapük: tied
 * Walloon: té
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טיי, טייען
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טיי, טייען


 * Arabic:  ,
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: чаша чай (čáša čaj)
 * Czech: čaj, šálek čaje
 * Faroese: temunnur, tedussur, temuður
 * Finnish: tee, kuppi teetä
 * French: tasse de thé
 * German: Tasse Tee
 * Hebrew: ספל תה (séfel té)
 * Hungarian: csésze tea
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: お茶一杯 (おちゃいっぱい, o-cha íppai)
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: arbata
 * Macedonian: шолја чај (šólja čaj)
 * Polish: filiżanka herbaty
 * Portuguese: xícara de chá
 * Romanian: ceașcă de ceai
 * Russian: чашка чая (čáška čája), чашка чаю (čáška čáju)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: taza de té
 * Thai: (chaa thuày nèùng),  (chaa nèùng thuày)
 * Turkish: bardak çay
 * Ukrainian: чашка чаю (čáška čáju)
 * Welsh: paned, dysgled


 * Arabic:
 * Czech:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: תה צמחים (té tsmahim)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 茶 (cha)
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: чај (čaj), чаеви (čáevi)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: infusão
 * Russian: чай (čaĭ)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: té de (other plants)
 * Welsh: trwyth


 * Arabic:
 * Czech: čaj, šálek čaje
 * Hebrew: ספל תה צמחים (séfel té tsmahim)
 * Japanese: 茶 (cha)
 * Latvian:


 * Macedonian: шолја чај (šólja čaj)
 * Polish:
 * Russian: чашка чая (čáška čája), чашка чаю (čáška čáju)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: おやつ (oyatsu), お茶 (o-cha)
 * Latvian:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: merienda, lonche , onces
 * Welsh:


 * : teo
 * : hapa (one or both of the meal senses)
 * : चहा
 * : ཇ (za)

Anagrams

 * a.e.t., ate, eat, ETA, eta

Etymology
Short form of Dorotea:. Cognate with Scandinavian and English Thea.

Related terms

 * Tiia, Tiiu

Proper noun

 * 1)  shortened from Dorotea ( =Dorothea).

Related terms

 * Teija, Tiia

Anagrams

 * ETA, tae

Noun

 * 1) cloth

Noun

 * 1) tea

Derived terms

 * teás
 * Compound words
 * tealevél
 * teaszűrő
 * zöld tea

Adjective

 * 1) white