See also: càj and çaj

Czech edit

 
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Etymology edit

Ultimately from Sinitic . Cognates include Russian чай (čaj).

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Noun edit

čaj m inan

  1. tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
    kup sáčkový čajbuy a tea bag
  2. tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
    pila čajshe drank tea
  3. tea (a variety of the tea plant)
    zelený čajgreen tea
  4. tea (by extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
    bylinkový čajherbal tea
    mátový čajpeppermint tea
    heřmánkový čajchamomile tea

Declension edit

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Further reading edit

  • čaj in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • čaj in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Upper Sorbian čaj, from Turkish çay, from Chinese (chá).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

čaj m inan

  1. (literary) tea

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “čaj”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
  • Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (çay).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

čȁj m (Cyrillic spelling ча̏ј)

  1. tea

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Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Sinitic .

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

čaj m inan (genitive singular čaju, nominative plural čaje, genitive plural čajov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. tea

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Derived terms edit

References edit

  • čaj”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian čȁj, replacing tẹ́ (which is now dialectal).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

čȃj m inan

  1. tea

Inflection edit

 
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. čáj
gen. sing. čája
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
čáj čája čáji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
čája čájev čájev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
čáju čájema čájem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
čáj čája čáje
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
čáju čájih čájih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
čájem čájema čáji

Further reading edit

  • čaj”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh Romani edit

Etymology edit

From Romani ćhaj.

Noun edit

čaj f

  1. female child, daughter, girl (only gypsies and gentlewomen)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • čaj” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.