white tea

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 白茶 (báichá).

Noun

white tea (countable and uncountable, plural white teas)

1. The leaves of a tea plant which have been processed in a manner to let them wilt slightly and lose their "grassy" taste of green tea while undergoing minimal oxidation.

   Coordinate terms: black tea, green tea

2. A drink brewed from these tea leaves.
3. Black tea served with milk.

Translations

leaves

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白茶葉／白茶叶, 白茶叶 (báicháyè)

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• Finnish: valkoinen tee
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

drink

• Arabic: شَاي أَبْيَض m (šāy ʔabyaḍ)
• Belarusian: бе́лая гарба́та f (bjélaja harbáta)
• Bulgarian: бял чай m (bjal čaj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白茶 (zh) (báichá)

• Finnish: valkoinen tee
• French: thé blanc m
• German: weißer Tee m
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• Irish: tae geal m
• Italian: tè bianco m
• Japanese: 白茶 (しらちゃ, shiracha)
• Korean: 백차 (baekcha) (白茶)
• Polish: biała herbata (pl) f
• Portuguese: chá branco m
• Russian: бе́лый чай m (bélyj čaj)
• Ukrainian: бі́лий чай m (bílyj čaj)
• Vietnamese: trà trắng

Further reading

• white tea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia