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11/01/10

Cha

The english word tea traces its roots to the name for tea in the Chinese Amoy Dialect: Te (pronounced tay). Cha is the Mandarin Chinese word for tea. Some countries use both. It's not unusual to hear someone in England request a "hot cup of cha".

Text copied from a Tea Calendar that I bought last year.

10 comments:

  1. Tea calendar?!!??!!!
    Now, this is what you call true love ...for 'cha':))

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  2. @ Anony...
    yea... its a pretty neat fridge magnet calendar

    @ Mayuri
    yea!

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  3. Wow..that was some info!
    I always thought it was a hindi word!!

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  4. Punjabi vich wi cha hi kehnde ne!

    Its amazing how languages and cultures are all connected in some way or the other, and still there is so much of a divide in every imaginable way!

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  5. 'Chai' ko Sanskrit main kya kehtay hain?

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  6. @ anony
    as far as i know-
    tea (chai) is called chai/ chaha in sanskrit.."chai" ka as such koi specific sanskrit term nahi hai..

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  7. @anony/Mayuri- 'chaayam'

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  8. @ anony
    ok, thanks... :)

    however chaayam is just the same word as chaha
    [chaha: + ya/ -yum (sanskrit suffix)]

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  9. @mayuri/anony: shukriya :)

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