herbal tea

English

Noun

herbal tea (countable and uncountable, plural herbal teas)

1. A beverage made by infusing mainly the leaves (and sometimes the flowers, roots, or stems) of various herbs or other plants, generally not including true tea (Camellia sinensis).

   Synonyms: herb tea, tisane

   Hypernym: tea

   Hyponym: root tea

   Coordinate term: tea

Related terms

• herbal medicine

Translations

beverage made by infusion of herbs

• Bulgarian: билков чай m (bilkov čaj)
• Catalan: tisana f, infusió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 涼茶／凉茶 (loeng⁴ caa⁴)

  Mandarin: 草本茶 (cǎoběnchá), 花草茶 (huācǎochá), 涼茶／凉茶 (zh) (liángchá), 藥茶／药茶 (yàochá) (medicated tea), 草藥茶／草药茶 (cǎoyàochá), 青草茶 (qīngcǎochá)

• Czech: bylinný čaj, bylinkový čaj
• Dutch: kruidenthee (nl) m
• Esperanto: tizano
• Finnish: yrttitee (fi)
• French: tisane (fr) f, infusion (fr) f
• German: Kräutertee (de) m
• Italian: tisana (it) f
• Japanese: ハーブティー (hābu tī)
• Korean: 허브티 (heobeuti)
• Maori: tī amiami
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urtete m

  Nynorsk: urtete m

• Persian: دمنوش (fa) (damnuš)
• Polish: herbata ziołowa f, napar (pl) m
• Portuguese: tisana (pt) f, infusão (pt) f
• Russian: травяно́й чай m (travjanój čaj), цвето́чный чай m (cvetóčnyj čaj) (flower/blossom tea), фиточа́й (ru) m (fitočáj) (neologism), отва́р из трав m (otvár iz trav) (herbal infusion)
• Spanish: tisana (es) f, infusión (es) f
• Swedish: örtte (sv) n
• Thai: ชาสมุนไพร
• Turkish: bitki çayı