teaspoon

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Etymology

tea +‎ spoon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtiˌspun/

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Noun

teaspoon ‎(plural teaspoons)

1. A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.
2. A unit of measure, worth one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.

Synonyms

• (unit of measure): tsp (abbreviation); (apothecaries' notation) f℥j

Translations

small spoon

• Afrikaans: teelepel
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茶匙 ‎(caa⁴ ci⁴), 茶羹 ‎(caa⁴ gang¹)

  Mandarin: 茶匙 (zh) ‎(cháchí)

• Czech: čajová lžička f
• Dutch: theelepeltje (nl) n, theelepel (nl) m, koffielepel (nl) m (maybe only used in Belgium)
• Estonian: teelusikas
• Finnish: teelusikka (fi)
• French: cuillère à café (fr) f
• Galician: culleriña (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Teelöffel (de) m
• Greek: κουταλάκι του γλυκού n ‎(koutaláki tou glykoú)
• Hebrew: כפית (he) f ‎(kapit)
• Irish: spúnóg bheag f
• Italian: cucchiaino da tè m
• Japanese: ティースプーン ‎(tīsupūn)
• Norman: tchulyi à thée f
• Korean: 찻숱가락 ‎(chatsutgarak)
• Lithuanian: šaukštelis m, arbatinis šaukštelis m
• Macedonian: лажичка f ‎(lážička)

• Maltese: kuċċarina f
• Maori: tīpūnu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teskje (no) m, f, teskei m, f

  Nynorsk: teskei f

• Polish: łyżeczka (pl) f, łyżeczka do herbaty (pl) f
• Portuguese: colher de chá (pt)
• Romanian: linguriță (ro) f
• Russian: ча́йная ло́жка f ‎(čájnaja lóžka), ло́жечка (ru) f ‎(lóžečka)
• Scottish Gaelic: spàin-teatha f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кашичица f, лижица f, жличица f

  Roman: kašičica (sh) f, ližica f, žličica (sh) f

• Slovak: lyžička
• Sotho: kgabana
• Spanish: cucharilla (es) f
• Swahili: kijiko cha chai
• Swedish: tesked (sv)
• Tagalog: kutsarita
• Turkish: çay kaşığı
• Volapük: tiedaspun
• Waray-Waray: kutsarita

unit of measure

• Dutch: theelepel (nl) m
• Finnish: teelusikallinen
• French: cuillère à café (fr) f
• Galician: culleradiña (gl) f
• German: Teelöffel (de) m
• Greek: κουταλάκι του γλυκού n ‎(koutaláki tou glykoú)
• Japanese: 小さじ ‎(kosaji)
• Macedonian: кафена лажичка f ‎(káfena lážička)
• Maori: tīpūnu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teskje (no) m, f, teskei m, f

  Nynorsk: teskei f

• Polish: łyżeczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: colher de chá (pt)
• Russian: ча́йная ло́жка f ‎(čájnaja lóžka)
• Scottish Gaelic: spàin-teatha f
• Spanish: cucharada de té f, cucharadita (es) f
• Swahili: kijiko cha chai
• Swedish: teskedsmått (sv)
• Tagalog: kutsarita
• Thai: ช้อนชา ‎(cháwnchaa)
• Turkish: çay kaşığı
• Waray-Waray: kutsarita

See also

• dessert spoon, dessertspoon
• soup spoon, soupspoon
• tablespoon