čaj
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Sinitic 茶. Cognates include Russian чай (čaj).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
čaj m inan
- tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
- kup sáčkový čaj ― buy a tea bag
- tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
- pila čaj ― she drank tea
- tea (a variety of the tea plant)
- zelený čaj ― green tea
- tea (by extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
- bylinkový čaj ― herbal tea
- mátový čaj ― peppermint tea
- heřmánkový čaj ― chamomile tea
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Upper Sorbian čaj, from Turkish çay, from Chinese 茶 (chá).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
čaj m inan
Declension edit
Declension of čaj
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)
Declension edit
Declension of čaj
Derived terms edit
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
čaj m inan (genitive singular čaju, nominative plural čaje, genitive plural čajov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension edit
Declension of čaj
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
Inflection edit
Masculine inan., soft o-stem | |||
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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
Noun edit
čaj f
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “čaj” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.