matcha

See also: Matcha, matchá, and matchą

English

Alternative forms

• maccha

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 抹茶 (matcha), from 抹 (matsu, “to wipe, to rub”) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.tʃə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ætʃə, (US) -ɑːtʃə

Noun

matcha (countable and uncountable, plural matchas)

1. A type of powdered green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies.
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Derived terms

• matchatini

Related terms

• amacha

Translations

powdered green tea for ceremonies

• Afrikaans: matcha
• Arabic: مَاتْشَا f (mātšā)

  Hijazi Arabic: ماتشا f (mātša)

• Azerbaijani: matça
• Bengali: মাচা (bn) (maca)
• Catalan: matxa (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抹茶 (zh) (mǒchá)

• Esperanto: pulvora teo
• Estonian: matcha
• Finnish: matcha (fi)
• French: matcha (fr) m, maccha (fr) m
• German: Matcha m
• Greek: μάτσα (el) n (mátsa)
• Gujarati: માચા (mācā), દળચા (daḷcā)
• Hebrew: מָאצָ׳ה m (máchah)
• Hindi: माचा (hi) m (mācā)
• Hungarian: matcsa, matcha (hu)
• Italian: matcha m, maccha m
• Japanese: 抹茶 (ja) (まっちゃ, matcha), 挽き茶 (ひきちゃ, hikicha), 散茶 (さんちゃ, sancha)
• Korean: 말차 (malcha), 가루차 (garucha)
• Norwegian: matcha
• Polish: matcha (pl) f
• Portuguese: matcha m or f, matchá m
• Russian: ма́ття f (máttja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маћа f, мача f

  Latin: maća (sh) f, mača (sh) f

• Spanish: matcha m or f
• Swedish: matcha (sv)
• Thai: มัตจะ
• Turkish: toz yeşil çay (tr), yeşil çay tozu (tr)
• Ukrainian: ма́ття f (máttja), ма́ча (uk) f (máča), ма́тча f (mátča)
• Vietnamese: mạt trà

See also

• chanoyu
• sencha
• tencha
• tea whisk

Further reading

• matcha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 抹茶 (matcha), from 抹 (matsu, “to wipe, to rub”) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat.ʃa/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Rhymes: -a

Noun

matcha m (uncountable)

1. matcha (powdered green tea for ceremonies)

Anagrams

• mâchât

Garo

Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *mV⁴-sha (“tiger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /matt͡ɕa/

Noun

matcha

1. tiger

Italian

Alternative forms

• maccha

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 抹茶 (matcha), from 抹 (matsu, “to wipe, to rub”) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -attʃa
• Hyphenation: màt‧cha

Noun

matcha m (uncountable)

1. matcha (powdered green tea for ceremonies)

Japanese

Romanization

matcha

1. Rōmaji transcription of まっちゃ

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• matchet

Verb

matcha

1. inflection of matche:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Polish

matcha

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English matcha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʂa/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʂa
• Syllabification: ma‧tcha
• Homophone: macza

Noun

matcha f (indeclinable)

1. matcha (type of powdered green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies)

Further reading

• matcha in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• matchá

Etymology

Internationalism. Borrowed from Japanese 抹茶 (matcha), from 抹 (matsu, “to wipe, to rub”) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃɐ/

• Rhymes: -at͡ʃɐ

Noun

matcha m or f (plural matchas)

1. matcha (powder resulting from crushing green tea buds, used in the preparation of infusions and as a culinary ingredient)

Further reading

• “matcha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “matcha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃa/ [ˈma.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Syllabification: mat‧cha

Noun

matcha m or f same meaning (plural matchas)

1. matcha

Swedish

Etymology 1

1952: borrowed from English match, from Middle English matche, metche, macche, mecche, mache, meche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa, secondary forms of maca, ġemaca (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-Germanic *makkô, *gamakkô, *makô, *gamakô (“an equal; comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²matɕa/

Verb

matcha (present matchar, preterite matchade, supine matchat, imperative matcha)

1. (transitive) to match
2. (transitive) to conform, to fit

Conjugation

Conjugation of matcha (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	matcha		matchas
supine	matchat		matchats
imperative	matcha		—
imper. plural1	matchen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	matchar	matchade	matchas	matchades
ind. plural1	matcha	matchade	matchas	matchades
subjunctive2	matche	matchade	matches	matchades
present participle		matchande
past participle		matchad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• (to fit): överensstämma

Related terms

• match

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 抹茶 (matcha), from 抹 (matsu, “to wipe, to rub”) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).

Noun

matcha c (uncountable)

1. matcha (powdered green tea for ceremonies)

Declension

Declension of matcha

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	matcha	matchas
	definite	matchan	matchans
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—