tea leaf

See also: tealeaf and tea-leaf

English

Alternative forms

• tea-leaf
• tealeaf

Noun

tea leaf (plural tea leaves)

1. (usually used in the plural) A dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A thief.

Derived terms

• tea-leafing
• tea-leaved

Translations

leaf of the tea plant

• Arabic: وَرَقَةْ اَلشَّاي‎ f (waraqat aš-šāy), أَوْرَاق اَلشَّاي‎ f pl (ʾawrāq aš-šāy)
• Bashkir: сәй япрағы (säy yaprağï)
• Bulgarian: ча́ен лист m (čáen list), ча́ени листа́ m pl (čáeni listá)
• Catalan: fulla de te f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茶葉, 茶叶 (caa⁴ jip⁶)

  Hakka: 茶葉, 茶叶 (chhà-ya̍p), 茶米 (chhà-mí)

  Mandarin: 茶葉 (zh), 茶叶 (zh) (cháyè)

  Min Nan: 茶心 (zh-min-nan) (tê-sim), 茶箬 (tê-hio̍h), 茶米 (zh-min-nan) (tê-bí)

• Czech: čajový lístek m
• Dutch: theeblad (nl) n
• Finnish: teelehti (fi), teenlehti
• French: feuille de thé f
• German: Teeblatt (de) n, Teeblätter (de) n pl
• Hebrew: עלה תה‎ m (a'leh téh)
• Hungarian: tealevél
• Irish: duilleog tae f, cnámhóga tae f pl (after steeping)
• Italian: foglia di tè f

• Japanese: 茶葉 (ja) (ちゃば, chaba, ちゃよう, chayō), お茶っ葉 (o-chappa)
• Korean: 찻잎 (chadip), 차잎 (chaip), 다엽 (dayeop)
• Lakota: wahpe kalyapi
• Macedonian: чаен лист m (čaen list), чајни листови m pl (čajni listovi)
• Norwegian: teblad n
• Ojibwe: aniibiish, aniibiishan pl
• Polish: liść herbaty m
• Portuguese: folha de chá f
• Russian: ча́йный лист m (čájnyj list), ча́йные ли́стья m pl (čájnyje lístʹja)
• Spanish: hoja de té f
• Swedish: teblad (sv) n
• Telugu: తేయాకు (te) (tēyāku)
• Thai: ใบชา
• Turkish: çay yaprağı
• Vilamovian: tȳbłōt n
• Welsh: deilen de f
• Zhuang: mbawcaz

thief — see thief