Tea in other languages

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oOTeaOo said 2013-03-01 01:02:17 -0500

I love how tea is universal and is very similar across many languages! In Swahili its chai :)

RiverTea said 2013-03-01 02:17:50 -0500

It’s true! You can travel anywhere in the world and find it easy to order a nice cup of tea.

chanchal khosla said 2013-03-01 11:12:02 -0500

In ayurveda,Tea was called ‘KAHRA’

TeaRunner said 2013-03-01 12:03:13 -0500

I actually did get around to investigating why Polish name for tea (“HERBATA”) does not resemble the word in any other language. It turns out that in Poland tea was originally used only as medication, sold only in pharmacies and considered to be some kind of Chinese herb – hence the Latin root “herb” in its name.

RiverTea said 2013-03-01 16:07:33 -0500

Thanks for sharing this. It’s actually pretty logical if you get to investigating etymology.

Infussion said 2013-03-07 03:49:48 -0500

From Latin herba thea. Its use was widespread and not only as medication, however it was the initial “marketing” approach :)

TeaRunner said 2013-03-01 12:15:56 -0500

I really got rolling here, but I just realized that a Polish word for a tea kettle is “CZAJ-nik”. Go figure!
Please somebody – give me something else to think about, quick!

RiverTea said 2013-03-01 16:06:22 -0500

How about a joke… a tea joke? :))

Infussion said 2013-03-07 03:40:53 -0500

I can help as I’m Polish. CZAJ is pronounced in the same way as CHAI in other languages.

No need to go figure when it’s this simple :)

RiverTea said 2013-03-07 04:01:37 -0500

Thanks for sharing! So it’s CHAI all the way!

pavl said 2013-03-01 13:51:05 -0500

Just like russian, bulgarian, and romanian, it’s also чай in ukranian

Stella said 2013-03-02 00:21:00 -0500

차(cha) in Korean,
(お)茶 (o-cha) in Japanese.

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