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: وَرَقَة اَلشَّاي‏‎ f (waraqat aš-šāy), أَوْرَاق اَلشَّاي‏‎ f pl (ʾawrāq aš-šāy)
• Bashkir: сәй япрағы (säy yaprağï)
• Catalan: fulla de te f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茶葉 (zh), 茶叶 (zh) (cháyè)

• 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 (ちゃば, chaba, ちゃよう, chayō)

• Korean: 찻잎 (chasip), 차잎 (chaip), 다엽 (dayeop)
• Lakota: wahpe kalyapi
• Macedonian: чаен лист m (čáen list), чајни листови m pl (čájni lístovi)
• 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

thief — see thief