teahouse

See also: tea house

English

A Chinese teahouse

Alternative forms

• tea house, tea-house

Etymology

tea +‎ house

Pronunciation

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Noun

teahouse (plural teahouses)

1. A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.
2. (euphemistic) a public lavatory, particularly (dated US gay slang) as a meeting place for gay men.

   Synonym: tearoom

Synonyms

• (cafe): tearoom, tea room, teashop, tea shop; see also Thesaurus:pub

Hypernyms

• house (structurally)

Translations

a cafe that sells tea

• Albanian: çajtore (sq) f
• Arabic: مَقْهًى m (maqhan), دَار شَاي f (dār šāy), صَالَة الشَّاي f (ṣālat aš-šāy)
• Armenian: թեյարան (hy) (tʻeyaran)
• Azerbaijani: çayevi, çayxana
• Bashkir: сәйхана (səyxana)
• Belarusian: гарба́тная f (harbátnaja), чайхана́ f (čajxaná) (Central Asia, etc.)
• Bengali: চাঘর (caghor)
• Bulgarian: ча́йна f (čájna)
• Burmese: လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (lakhpak-ranyhcuing)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茶居 (caa⁴ geoi¹), 茶館／茶馆 (caa⁴ gun²)

  Dungan: цагуан (caguan)

  Hokkien: 茶店仔 (zh-min-nan) (tê-tiàm-á), 茶館／茶馆 (zh-min-nan) (tê-koán)

  Mandarin: 茶館／茶馆 (zh) (cháguǎn), 茶樓／茶楼 (zh) (chálóu)

  Wu: 紅茶坊／红茶坊 (⁶ghon-zo-faon)

• Czech: čajovna (cs) f
• Danish: tehus n
• Dutch: theehuis (nl) n, tearoom (nl), theesalon
• Esperanto: teejo
• Estonian: teemaja
• Finnish: teehuone (fi)
• French: salon de thé (fr) m, maison de thé (fr) f
• Gagauz: çay evi
• Georgian: ჩაიხანა (ka) (čaixana)
• German: Teehaus (de) n, Teestube (de) f
• Greek: τσαγερία f (tsagería)
• Hebrew: בֵּית תֵּה m (báyit te)
• Hindi: चायख़ाना m (cāyxānā), चाय की दुकान f (cāy kī dukān)
• Hungarian: teaház (hu)
• Icelandic: tehús n
• Ido: teerio
• Ingrian: cäinöi
• Irish: teach tae m
• Italian: sala da tè f, casa da tè f
• Japanese: 喫茶店 (ja) (きっさてん, kissaten), 茶店 (ja) (ちゃみせ, chamise, さてん, saten), 茶室 (ja) (ちゃしつ, chashitsu), 茶屋 (ja) (ちゃや, chaya), 茶房 (ja) (さぼ, sabo)
• Kazakh: шайхана (şaixana)
• Khmer: ហាងតែ (haang tae)
• Korean: 찻집 (ko) (chatjip), 다방(茶房) (ko) (dabang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چایخانە (çayxane)

  Northern Kurdish: çayxane (ku)

• Kyrgyz: чайкана (ky) (caykana)
• Lao: ຮ້ານຊາ (hān sā), ໂຮງນ້ຳຊາ (hōng nam sā)
• Latvian: tējnīca f
• Lithuanian: arbatinė f
• Macedonian: чајџилница f (čajdžilnica)
• Manchu: ᠴᠠᡳ
  ᡦᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ (cai puseli)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цайны газар (cajny gazar)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ (čai-yin ɣaǰar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tehus n

• Ottoman Turkish: چایخانه (çayhane)
• Pashto: چايخانه f (čâyxāna)
• Persian: چایْخانِه (fa) (čâyxâne)
• Polish: herbaciarnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: casa de chá f, casa de chás f
• Punjabi: ਚਾਹਖ਼ਾਨਾ (cāhxānā)
• Romanian: ceainărie (ro) f, ceainărie-cofetărie f
• Russian: ча́йная (ru) f (čájnaja), чайхана́ (ru) f (čajxaná) (Central Asia, etc.)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чајџиница f

  Roman: čajdžinica f

• Slovak: čajovňa (sk) f
• Slovene: čajnica f
• Spanish: casa de té f, salón de té m
• Swedish: tehus n
• Tajik: чойхона (tg) (čoyxona)
• Tatar: чәйханә (tt) (çäyxanä)
• Thai: โรงน้ำชา (roong-náam-chaa)
• Tibetan: ཇ་ཁང (ja khang)
• Turkish: çayhane (tr), çayevi (tr)
• Turkmen: çayhana
• Ukrainian: ча́йна f (čájna), чайхана́ f (čajxaná) (Central Asia, etc.)
• Urdu: چائے خانَہ m (cāe xāna)
• Urum: чайхане (çayhane)
• Uyghur: چايخانا (chayxana)
• Uzbek: choyxona (uz)

  Cyrillic: чойхона (choyxona)

• Vietnamese: phòng trà, quán trà
• Welsh: tŷ te m
• Yiddish: טיי-הויז n (tey-hoyz)

a public lavatory particularly as a meeting place for gay men

• Spanish: (Argentina) tetera (es) f