How to Say Tea in Different Languages

 How to Say Tea in Different Languages

• Afrikaans: tee

• Albanian: caj (pronounced chai)

• Arabic: chai or shai

• Armenian: te

• Azerbaijani: caj (pronounced chai)

• Basque: tea

• Belarusian: harbatu

• Bengali/Bangla: cha

• Bulgarian: chai

• Catalan: té

• Chinese (Cantonese): cha

• Chinese (Mandarin): cha (second tone / pronounced with the "a" in a rising tone)

• Croatian: caj (pronounced chai)

• Czech: caj (pronounced cha-i)

• Danish: te

• Dutch: thee

• English: tea

• Esperanto: teo

• Filipino/Tagalog: tsaa

• Finnish: tee

• French: le thé (masculine)

• Galician: té

• Georgian: chai

• German: der Tee (masculine; the "T" is capitalized because all German nouns are capitalized)

• Greek: tsai

• Haitian Creole: té

• Hebrew: teh

• Hindi: chai

• Hungarian: tea (plural: teak)

• Irish: tae

• Italian: te (pronounced teh)

• Icelandic: te

• Indonesian: teh

• Japanese: o-cha (o- is used as a prefix meaning "honorable" and -cha is used to mean "tea" in various tea names, such as matcha, sencha and hojicha)

• Korean: cha

• Latvian: teja (pronounced tay-ya)

• Lithuanian: arbata

• Luxembourgish: Téi (like in German, all nouns are capitalized in Luxembourish)

• Macedonian: chaj (pronounced chai)

• Malay: teh

• Maltese: te

• Norwegian: te

• Persian: chay (pronounced chai in most areas)

• Polish: herbata

• Portuguese: cha (pronounced shah with a Brazilian accent)

• Romanian: ceai

• Russian: chai

• Serbian: caj (pronounced chai)

• Sinhalese (Sri Lanka): thé (The word for teapot is actually a Dutch loanword. It is theepot.)

• Slovakian: caj (pronounced chai)

• Slovenian: caj (pronounced chai)

• Somali: shaah

• Spanish: el té (masculine; pronounced tay)

• Swahili: chai (pronounced cha-i)

• Swedish: te

• Taiwanese: de (boba naicha refers to Taiwan; popular "tapioca pearl tea")

• Tamil (Sri Lanka): tea

• Thai: chah (chah yen refers to Thai iced tea)

• Tibetan: cha or ja

• Turkish: cay (pronounced chai)

• Ukrainian: chaj (pronounced chay)

• Urdu: chai

• (North) Vietnamese: che

• (South) Vietnamese: tra (sometimes pronounced cha or ja)

• Wolof: achai (pronounced uh-chuy)

• Welsh: te

• Yiddish: tey

• Zulu: itiye