teacup

See also: tea-cup and tea cup

English

Alternative forms

• tea-cup, tea cup

Etymology

tea +‎ cup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.kʌp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

teacup (plural teacups)

1. A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:

     "There isn't wind enough to capsize a tea-cup in a gutter," said Rasmus, and shifted his chew of tobacco with a little black chalk pipe, while he looked around him on all sides.

2. A unit of measure; a teacupful.

Derived terms

• storm in a teacup
• teacup and saucer
• teacup dog
• teacupful
• teacupless
• teacuplike
• teacup puppy
• tempest in a teacup

 

Translations

cup for drinking tea

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܸܢܓܵܢܵܐ m (pingānā)
• Belarusian: філіжанка f (filižanka)
• Bulgarian: чаена чаша f (čaena čaša)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茶杯 (caa⁴ bui¹)

  Mandarin: 茶碗 (zh) (cháwǎn), 茶杯 (zh) (chábēi)

• Chuvash: чей курки (čej k̬urk̬i)
• Danish: tekop c
• Dutch: theekopje (nl) n
• Estonian: teetass (et)
• Finnish: teekuppi (fi)
• French: tasse à thé (fr) f
• German: Teetasse (de) f
• Greek: φλιτζάνι τσαγιού n (flitzáni tsagioú)
• Indonesian: cawan (id)
• Irish: cupán tae m, taechupán m
• Japanese: 茶碗 (ja) (ちゃわん, chawan), 湯呑み (ja), 湯飲み (ja) (yunomi)
• Korean: 찻잔 (ko) (chatjan)
• Macedonian: чајна шолја f (čajna šolja), шолја за чај f (šolja za čaj)
• Malay: cawan (ms)
• Maori: tīkapu, kaputī
• Mongolian: цайны аяга (cajny ajaga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tekopp m

  Nynorsk: tekopp m

• Pennsylvania German: Koppche n
• Polish: filiżanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: xícara (pt) f, chávena (pt) f
• Romanian: ceașcă (ro) f
• Russian: ча́йная ча́шка f (čájnaja čáška), ча́шка (ru) f (čáška)
• Swedish: tekopp (sv)
• Tibetan: ཇ་དཀར (ja dkar)
• Turkish: çay bardağı (tr), çay fincanı (tr)
• Vietnamese: chén uống trà

Adjective

teacup (not comparable)

1. Of an animal, smaller than average.

See also

• ass over teacups

Further reading

• teacup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia