Tea: how do you call it?

Tea: How do you call it? The Chinese character for tea is # which means a bitter plant. The word tea' derives from China as it was the first trading source of tea in the world in the mid- 1600s. Many variations of the word fall for tea into two prohunciatioh branches that originate from China: te' used in Min-Nan dialect and 'cha' used by Cantonese and Mandarin speakers. Image source: estherwarrenhwordpress.com te te tea English Hungarian Catalan Spanish Danish Hebrew Italian Latvian tee Malay Norwegian Swedish Afrikaans Finnish German Korean the French Icelandic Indonesian Tamil thee Dutch herbata, arbata Polish, Lithuanian: derived from the Dutch 'herba thee' or Latin 'herba thea' meaning a tea herb. cha cha chai Russian Greek Hindi Japanese Persian Portuguese chay (caj) Albanian Arabic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Serbian Turkish Ca Inspiration: The story of tea: a cultural history and drinking guide / M. Lou Heiss & R. J. Heiss, 2007 How to say tea in 39 languages: www.persimmontreetea.com/blog/language-of-tea/ • Etymology of tea: enwikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea powered by Piktochart make information beautiful