Tea Calling
What is tea called in different languages across the globe
›› In different international languages using Tea or Te as derivative
Language
Name
Language
Name
Afrikaans
tee
Galician Spanish
té
Armenian, Catalan
te
Hebrew
תה,te
Danish
te
Indonesian
תה, te or tei
Icelandic
te
Irish
teh
Faroese
te
Italian
tae
Swedish
te
Scientific Latin
tè
Czech
té or thé
Latvian
thea
Welsh
te
Malay
teh
Norwegian
te
Polish
tēja
Dutch
té or thé, čaj is used nowadays
Lithuanian
teh
English
tea
Scots Gaelic
tì, teatha
Hungarian
tea
French Singhalese
thé
Estonian Finnish (West) Frisian German
tee
Esperanto
teo
›› Indian Languages
Language
Name
Language
Name
Bengali
(চা )Cha
Marathi
Chahaa
Gujarati
cha
Oriya
Cha
*Hindi
chai, beverage
Tamil
theneer
Kannada
Chaha
Telugu
ṭī
Malayalam
Chaya
Urdu
چاى
Nepali
Cheeya
›In different international languages using cha or chai derivatives
Language
Name
Language
Name
Albanian
çaj
Persian
چای chaay
Amharic
pronounced shy
Portuguese
chá
Arabic
shai
Romanian
ceai
Assyrian , Bulgarian
Swahili
Cebuano
tsa
Ukrainian
pronounced chai
Russian
чай, chai
Azeri
çay
Serbian
чај chaj
Slovene
čaj
Somali
shaax
Capampangan
cha
Tagalog
tsaa
English
char, slang
Thai
ชา, cha
Georgian
chai
Tibetan
ཇ་ja
Greek
tsái
Tlingit
cháayu
Japanese
茶, ちゃ, cha
Turkish
çay
Kazakh
шай shai
Uzbek
choy
Korean
茶,차 cha
Vietnamese
trà and chè
Mongolian
цай, tsai
*In USA chai is used to refer almost exclusively to the Indian chai (or masala chai)
Every nation in creation has its favorite drink, France is famous for her wine, its beer in Germany. Turkey loves her coffee, and they serve it blacker than ink; Russians love their vodka, England loves her tea.
John Bladrey