teahouse

See also: tea house

English

Alternative forms

• tea house

Pronunciation

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Etymology

tea +‎ house

Noun

teahouse (plural teahouses)

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

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• house (structurally)

Translations

a cafe that sells tea

• Arabic: مَقْهَى‏‎ f (maqhā), دَار شَاي‏‎ f (dār šāy), صَالَة اَلشَّاي‏‎ f (ṣālat aš-šāy)
• Armenian: թեյարան (hy) (tʿeyaran)
• Azeri: çayxana
• Bashkir: сәйхана (säyxana)
• Belarusian: гарба́тная f (harbátnaja), чайхана́ f (čajxaná) (Central Asia, etc.)
• Bulgarian: ча́йна f (čájna)
• Burmese: လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (lakhpak-ranyhcuing)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: čajovna (cs) f
• Danish: tehus n
• Dutch: theehuis (nl) n, tearoom, theesalon
• Estonian: teemaja
• Finnish: teehuone (fi)
• French: salon de thé (fr) m
• Gagauz: çay evi
• Georgian: ჩაიხანა (čaixana)
• German: Teehaus (de) n, Teestube (de) f
• Hebrew: בֵּית תֵּה‏‎ m (báyit te)
• Hindi: चायख़ाना (cāyaxānā)
• Hungarian: teaház
• Icelandic: tehús n
• Ido: teerio
• 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 (ちゃしつ, chashitsu), 茶屋 (ちゃや, chaya), 茶房 (ja) (さぼ, sabo)
• Kazakh: шайхана (şayxana)
• Korean: 찻집 (ko) (chatjip), 다방 (ko) (dabang)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چایخانە‏‎ (çayxane)

• Kyrgyz: чайхана (çayhana)

• Latvian: tējnīca f
• Lithuanian: arbatinė f
• Macedonian: чајџи́лница f (čajdžílnica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tehus n

• Persian: چای‌خانه‏‎ (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)
• Tibetan: ཇ་ཁང (ja khang)
• Turkish: çayhane (tr), çayevi (tr)
• Turkmen: çayhana
• Ukrainian: ча́йна f (čájna), чайхана́ f (čajxaná) (Central Asia, etc.)
• Urdu: چایخانہ‏‎ (cāyxāna)
• Urum: чайхане (çayhane)
• Uyghur: چايخانا‏‎ (chayxana)
• Uzbek: choyxona (uz), чойхона
• Vietnamese: phòng trà, quán trà