چای

See also: چاي‎, چاۓ‎, and خای‎

Pashto

Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑi/
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Noun

چای • (čây) m (plural چای)

tea

Persian

Alternative forms

چایی‎ (čâyi)
چائی‎ (čâ'i)
چا‎ (čâ)

Etymology

From Sinitic 茶 (chá).

Pronunciation

Dari Persian	چای‎
Iranian Persian	چای‎
Tajiki Persian	чой (čoy)

IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɒːj]

Noun

چای • (čây) (plural چای‌ها‎ (čây-hâ))

tea

Derived terms

چایخانه‎ (čâyxâne)
چایدان‎ (čâydân)
چای سبز‎ (čây-e-sabz)
چای کیسه‌ای‎ (čây-e-kise-i)

Descendants

→ Arabic: شاي‎ (šāy), صاي‎ (ṣāy), صا‎
- → Aramaic: ܟ݈ܐܝ‎ (chai)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: चाय (cāy), चा (cā)

Urdu: چای‎ (ćāy), چا‎ (cā)
- → English: chai, cha, char
- → French: chai
- → German: Chai
- → Japanese: チャイ (chai)
- → Korean: 차이 (chai)
- → Swahili: chai
→ Kalasha: čay
→ Konkani: चा (cā), च्या (cyā)
→ Malayalam: ചായ (cāya)
→ Marathi: चहा (chahā)
→ Oriya: ଚା (chā)
→ Pashto: چای‎ (čây)
→ Punjabi: ਚਾਹ (chāh)
→ Sindhi: چانھ‎ (čānhi)
→ Sinhalese: තේ (tē), තෝ (tō)
→ Tamil: தேநீர் (tēnīr)
→ Telugu: తేనీరు (tēnīru), తేయాకు (tēyāku)
→ Ottoman Turkish: چای‎ (çây), چا‎ (çâ)
- Turkish: çay
  - → Adyghe: щай (š̍āj)
  - → Lower Sorbian: čaj (literary)
- → Albanian: çaj
- → Armenian: չայ (čʿay)
- → Azerbaijani: çay
- → Bashkir: сәй (säy)
- → Belarusian: чай (čaj)
- → Bulgarian: чай (čaj)
- → Crimean Tatar: şay, çay
- → Greek: τσάι (tsái) (possibly via a Slavic language)
- → Karachay-Balkar: шай
- → Karakalpak: чай
- → Kazakh: шай (şay)
- → Kurdish: çay
- → Kyrgyz: чай (çay)
- → Macedonian: чај (čaj)
- → Russian: чай (čaj)
  - → Abaza: чай (č̍āj)
  - → Abkhaz: ачаи (āč̍āi)
  - → Avar: чай (čaj)
  - → Buryat: сай (saj)
  - → Chechen: чай (čaj)
  - → Chuvash: чей (čej)
  - → Erzya: чай (čaj)
  - → Finnish: tsaiju, saikka
  - → Ingush: чай (čaj)
  - → Georgian: ჩაი (čai)
  - → Kabardian: шай (šāj)
  - → Lezgi: чай (čaj)
  - → Moksha: чай (čaj)
  - → Romanian: ceai
  - → Slovak: čaj
  - → Tabasaran: чай (čaj)
  - → Tuvan: шай (šay)
  - → Ukrainian: чай (čaj)
  - → Udmurt: чай (ćaj)
  - → Upper Sorbian: čaj
  - → Veps: čai
  - → Yakut: чэй (çey)
  - → Yup'ik: caayuq
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: чај
  
  Latin: čaj
  - → Slovene: čaj
- → Southern Altai: цай (cay), чай (čay)
- → Tatar: чәй (çäy)
- → Turkmen: çay
- → Uyghur: چاي‎ (chay)
- → Uzbek: choy
- → Zazaki: çay
→ Turkmen: çaý

Urdu

Alternative forms

چا‎ (cā)
چاۓ‎ (cā'e)
چاء‎ (cā')

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (čây). Ultimately from Sinitic 茶.

Noun

چای • (cāy) f (Hindi spelling चाय)

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