Czech

Noun

čaj m

1. tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   kup šáčkový čaj

2. tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   pila čaj

3. tea (a variety of the tea plant)

   černé čaje

4. tea (by extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   bylinkový čaj

   mátový čaj

   heřmánkový čaj

Declension

Derived terms

• čajový
• čajovník
• čajovna
• čajník
• čajíček

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowing from Turkish çay, from Chinese 茶 ‎(chá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaj/

Noun

čaj m

1. (literary) tea

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish çay), from Sinitic 茶.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃâj/

Noun

čȁj m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ча̏ј)

1. tea

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Russian чай ‎(čaj), from Sinitic 茶 ‎(chá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaj/

Noun

čaj m ‎(genitive singular čaju, nominative plural čaje, declension pattern of dub)

1. tea

Declension

References

• čaj in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian čaj, borrowed to replace tẹ́ (which is now dialectal), which had been borrowed from German Tee.

Noun

čáj m inan ‎(genitive čája, nominative plural čáji)

1. tea

Declension