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Saturday, February 16, 2013

How to call TEA in Different Languages !

Afrikaans: tee

Albanian: caj (pronounced chai)


Arabic: chai or shai


Armenian: te


Azerbaijani: caj (pronounced chai)


Basque: tea


Belarusian: harbatu


Bengali/Bangla: cha


Bulgarian: chai


Catalan: té


Chinese (Cantonese): cha


Chinese (Mandarin): cha (second tone / pronounced with the "a" in a rising tone)


Croatian: caj (pronounced chai)


Czech: caj (pronounced cha-i)


Danish: te


Dutch: thee


English: tea


Esperanto: teo


Filipino/Tagalog: tsaa


Finnish: tee


French: le thé (masculine)


Galician: té


Georgian: chai


German: der Tee (masculine; the “T” is capitalized because all German nouns are capitalized)


Greek: tsai

 
Gujarati: chaa (sometimes Chahaa / Chaah)

Haitian Creole: té


Hebrew: teh


Hindi:
chai

Hungarian: tea (plural: teak)


Irish: tae


Italian: te (pronounced teh)


Icelandic: te


Indonesian: teh


Japanese: ocha (-cha is used as a suffix)


Korean: cha


Latvian: teja (pronounced tay-ya)


Lithuanian: arbata


Luxembourgish: Téi (like in German, all nouns are capitalized in Luxembourish)


Macedonian: chaj (pronounced chai)


Malay: teh


Maltese: te


Norwegian: te


Persian: chay (pronounced chai in most areas)


Polish: herbata


Portuguese: cha (pronounced shah with a Brazilian accent)


Romanian: ceai


Russian: chai


Serbian: caj (pronounced chai)


Sinhalese (Sri Lanka): thé (The word for teapot is actually a Dutch loanword. It is theepot.)


Slovak: caj (pronounced chai)


Slovenian: caj (pronounced chai)


Somali: shaah


Spanish: el té (masculine; pronounced tay)


Swahili: chai (pronounced cha-i)


Swedish: te


Taiwanese: de (boba naicha refers to Taiwan’s popular “tapioca pearl tea”)


Tamil (Sri Lanka): tea


Thai: chah (chah yen refers to Thai iced Tea)


Tibetan: cha or ja


Turkish: cay (pronounced chai)


Ukrainian: chaj (pronounced chay)


Urdu: chai


(North) Vietnamese: che


(South) Vietnamese: tra (sometimes pronounced cha or ja)


Wolof: achai (pronounced uh-chuy)


Welsh: te


Yiddish: tey


Zulu: itiye