چای

See also: چاي, چاۓ, and خای

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Sinitic 茶 (chá).

Alternative forms

• چا (ça)

Noun

چای • (çay)

1. tea

Descendants

• Turkish: çay
• → Adyghe: щай (śaj)
• → Albanian: çaj
• → Armenian: չայ (čʻay)
• → Azerbaijani: çay
• → Bashkir: сәй (səy)
• → Belarusian: чай (čaj)
• → Bulgarian: чай (čaj)
• → Crimean Tatar: şay, çay
• → Greek: τσάι (tsái) (possibly via a Slavic language)
• → Karachay-Balkar: шай (şay)
• → Karakalpak: чай
• → Kazakh: шай (şai)
• → Kurdish: çay
• → Kyrgyz: чай (cay)
• → Macedonian: чај (čaj)
• → Russian: чай (čaj)
  • → Alutiiq: cayuq
  • → Alutor: сайый (sajəj), саю (saju)
  • → Abaza: чай (ćaj)
  • → Abkhaz: ачаи (ačaj)
  • → Avar: чай (čaj)
  • → Bezhta: чай (čaj)
  • → Chechen: чай (čaj)
  • → Chuvash: чей (čej)
  • → Erzya: чай (čaj)
  • → Finnish: tsaiju, saikka
  • → Georgian: ჩაი (čai)
  • → Ingrian: caaju, caju, cääjy
  • → Ingush: чай (čaj)
  • → Kabardian: шай (šaj)
  • → Kildin Sami: ча̄йй (čājj)
  • → Lezgi: чай (čaj)
  • ⇒ Livvi: čuaju
  • → Moksha: чай (čaj)
  • → Romanian: ceai
  • → Skolt Sami: čeei, čee
  • → Slovak: čaj
  • → Tabasaran: чай (čaj)
  • → Ukrainian: чай (čaj)
  • → Udmurt: чай (ćaj)
  • → Upper Sorbian: čaj
  • → Veps: čai
  • → Votic: tšaaju
  • → Yakut: чэй (cey)
  • → Yup'ik: caayuq
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чај

  Latin script: čaj

• → Slovene: čaj
• → Lower Sorbian: čaj (literary)
• → Southern Altai: чай (čay)
• → Tatar: чәй (çäy)
• → Turkmen: çay
• → Uyghur: چاي (chay)
• → Uzbek: choy
• → Zazaki: çay

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *čāj.

Noun

چای • (çay)

1. rivulet

Descendants

• Turkish: çay

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Pashto

Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑi/

• Audio:

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Noun

چای • (čây) m (plural چای)

1. tea

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Persian

Alternative forms

• چایی (čâyi)
• چائی (čâ'i)
• چا (čâ)

Etymology

From Sinitic 茶葉／茶叶 (cháyè).

Pronunciation

Dari	چای
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чой

Noun

چای • (čây) (plural چای‌ها (čây-hâ))

1. tea

Derived terms

• چایخانه (čâyxâne)
• چایدان (čâydân)
• چای سبز (čây-e-sabz)
• چای کیسه‌ای (čây-e-kise-i)

Descendants

• → Arabic: شاي (šāy), صاي (ṣāy), صا
  • → Aramaic: ܟ݈ܐܝ (chai)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चाय (cāy), चा (cā)

  Urdu: چای (ćāy), چا (cā)

  • → English: chai, cha, char
  • → French: chai
  • → German: Chai
  • → Japanese: チャイ (chai)
  • → Korean: 차이 (chai)
  • → Swahili: chai
• → Kalasha: čay
• → Konkani: चा (cā), च्या (cyā)
• → Malayalam: ചായ (cāya)
• → Marathi: चहा (chahā)
• → Odia: ଚା (chā)
• → Pashto: چای (čây)
• → Punjabi: ਚਾਹ (chāh)
• → Sindhi: چانھ (čānhi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چای (çay), چا (ça)
  • Turkish: çay
  • → Adyghe: щай (śaj)
  • → Albanian: çaj
  • → Armenian: չայ (čʻay)
  • → Azerbaijani: çay
  • → Bashkir: сәй (səy)
  • → Belarusian: чай (čaj)
  • → Bulgarian: чай (čaj)
  • → Crimean Tatar: şay, çay
  • → Greek: τσάι (tsái) (possibly via a Slavic language)
  • → Karachay-Balkar: шай (şay)
  • → Karakalpak: чай
  • → Kazakh: шай (şai)
  • → Kurdish: çay
  • → Kyrgyz: чай (cay)
  • → Macedonian: чај (čaj)
  • → Russian: чай (čaj)
    • → Alutiiq: cayuq
    • → Alutor: сайый (sajəj), саю (saju)
    • → Abaza: чай (ćaj)
    • → Abkhaz: ачаи (ačaj)
    • → Avar: чай (čaj)
    • → Bezhta: чай (čaj)
    • → Chechen: чай (čaj)
    • → Chuvash: чей (čej)
    • → Erzya: чай (čaj)
    • → Finnish: tsaiju, saikka
    • → Georgian: ჩაი (čai)
    • → Ingrian: caaju, caju, cääjy
    • → Ingush: чай (čaj)
    • → Kabardian: шай (šaj)
    • → Kildin Sami: ча̄йй (čājj)
    • → Lezgi: чай (čaj)
    • ⇒ Livvi: čuaju
    • → Moksha: чай (čaj)
    • → Romanian: ceai
    • → Skolt Sami: čeei, čee
    • → Slovak: čaj
    • → Tabasaran: чай (čaj)
    • → Ukrainian: чай (čaj)
    • → Udmurt: чай (ćaj)
    • → Upper Sorbian: čaj
    • → Veps: čai
    • → Votic: tšaaju
    • → Yakut: чэй (cey)
    • → Yup'ik: caayuq
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чај

    Latin script: čaj

  • → Slovene: čaj
  • → Lower Sorbian: čaj (literary)
  • → Southern Altai: чай (čay)
  • → Tatar: чәй (çäy)
  • → Turkmen: çay
  • → Uyghur: چاي (chay)
  • → Uzbek: choy
  • → Zazaki: çay
• → Turkmen: çaý

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Urdu

Alternative forms

• چا (cā)
• چاۓ (cā'e)
• چاء (cā')

Etymology

From Persian چای (čây). Ultimately from Sinitic 茶 (chá).

Noun

چای • (cāy) f (Hindi spelling चाय)

1. tea
2. cha
3. chai