From tea + kettle .
teakettle (plural teakettles )
( dated outside US ) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne , The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance , Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields :Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
1869–1870 , Louisa M[ay] Alcott , chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl , Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers , published 1870 , →OCLC :“Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”
a vessel for boiling water for tea
Afrikaans: ketel
Albanian: çajnik (sq) , ibrik (sq) m
Arabic: غَلَّايَة f ( ḡallāya )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦܬܵܦܵܐ f ( aptāpā ) , ܟ̰ܵܝܕܵܢ f ( čāydān )
Armenian: թեյաման (hy) ( tʻeyaman )
Azerbaijani: çaydan , çaynik
Bashkir: сәйнүк ( səynük )
Belarusian: ча́йнік m ( čájnik ) , гарба́тнік m ( harbátnik )
Bengali: কেটলি (bn) ( keṭli )
Bulgarian: ча́йник (bg) m ( čájnik )
Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (my) ( re-nwe:ui: )
Catalan: bullidor m , tetera f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 水壺 / 水壶 ( seoi2 wu4-2 )
Mandarin: 水壺 / 水壶 (zh) ( shuǐhú ) , 壺 / 壶 (zh) ( hú )
Crimean Tatar: çaynik
Czech: konvice (cs) f
Danish: vandkoger c
Dutch: waterkoker (nl) m
Estonian: teekann (et)
Faroese: ketil m
Finnish: teepannu (fi) , vesipannu (fi)
French: bouilloire (fr) m , bouilloire à thé (fr) m
Georgian: ჩაიდანი ( čaidani )
German: Kessel (de) m , Teekessel (de) m
Greek: βραστήρας (el) m ( vrastíras )
Hausa: sàhānī̀ m
Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם (he) m ( kumkum )
Hindi: केतली (hi) f ( ketlī )
Hungarian: teáskanna (hu)
Icelandic: ketill (is) m
Italian: teiera (it) f , bollitore (it) m
Japanese: 薬缶 (ja) ( やかん, yakan ) , 湯わかし ( ゆわかし, yuwakashi )
Kazakh: шәйнек (kk) ( şäinek )
Khmer: កំសៀវ (km) ( kɑmsiəw ) , ប៉ាន់តែ ( pan tae )
Korean: 주전자(酒煎子) (ko) ( jujeonja )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چاپەز ( çapez )
Kyrgyz: чайнек (ky) ( caynek )
Lao: ກາຕົ້ມນ້ຳ ( kā tom nam ) , ໝໍ້ກາ (lo) ( mǭ kā )
Latvian: tējkanna f
Lithuanian: arbatinukas m
Macedonian: ча́јник m ( čájnik ) , ко́тле n ( kótle )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: данх (mn) ( danx )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vannkoker m
Old Frisian: sthitil
Persian:
Dari: چایجوش ( čây-jôš )
Iranian Persian: کِتْری (fa) ( ketri )
Polish: czajnik (pl) m , imbryk (pl) m , sagan (pl) m ( regional )
Portuguese: chaleira (pt) f
Romanian: ceainic (ro) n , ibric (ro) n
Russian: ча́йник (ru) m ( čájnik )
Scottish Gaelic: coire m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ча̑јнӣк m
Roman: čȃjnīk (sh) m
Slovak: čajník (sk) m , čajová kanvica f
Slovene: čajnik m
Sotho: ketlele
Spanish: tetera (es) f
Swedish: vattenkokare (sv) c
Tagalog: takuri
Tajik: чойник (tg) ( čoynik )
Tatar: чәйнек (tt) ( çäynek )
Thai: กาน้ำ (th) ( gaa-náam ) , กา (th) ( gaa ) , กาต้มน้ำ
Turkish: çaydanlık (tr)
Turkmen: çäýnek
Ukrainian: ча́йник m ( čájnyk )
Urdu: کیتْلی f ( ketlī )
Uyghur: چەينەك ( cheynek )
Uzbek: choydish (uz) , qumg'on (uz) , choynak (uz)
Vietnamese: ấm đun nước
Volapük: tiedaskal (vo)
Welsh: tegell m
West Frisian: tsjettel
Yiddish: טשײַניק m ( tshaynik )
teakettle (third-person singular simple present teakettles , present participle teakettling , simple past and past participle teakettled )
( intransitive , rare ) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
2006 , Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh , page 46 :The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
2011 , Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause :They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.