# چای
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

چای (çay) (definite accusative چایێ (çayı), plural چایلار (çaylar))
* Arabic spelling of çay

#### Declension
## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چای (čāy), ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá).

### Noun

چای (čay) (uncountable)
* tea

## Khalaj
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

چای (çâay) (definite accusative چایؽ, plural چایلار)
* Arabic spelling of çâay (“river”)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

چای (çây) (definite accusative چایؽ, plural چایلار)
* Arabic spelling of çây (“tea”)

##### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”).

#### Alternative forms

* چا (ça)

#### Noun

چای • (çay) (definite accusative چایی (çayı), plural چایلر (çaylar))
* tea plant, any bush of the species Camellia sinensis whose leaves are picked to make a beverage
    Synonym: چای آغاجی (çay ağacı)
* tea, a common beverage made by infusing the dried leaves or buds of this plant in hot water

##### Derived terms

* آطه چایی (ada çayı, “sage”)
* سیاه توز چای (siyah toz çay, “powdered black tea”)
* قالب چای (kalıb çay, “exported tea”)
* چای آغاجی (çay ağacı, “tea plant”)
* چای سوزكجی (çay süzgeci, “tea strainer”)
* چای شكری (çay şekeri, “tea sugar”)
* چای طاقمی (çay takımı, “tea set”)
* یشیل چای (yeşil çay, “green tea”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çay
* → Adyghe: щай (śaj)
* → Albanian: çaj
* → Armenian: չայ (čʻay)
* → Azerbaijani: çay
* → Bashkir: сәй (səy)
* → Belarusian: чай (čaj)
* → Bulgarian: чай (čaj)
* → Crimean Tatar: şay, çay
* → Greek: τσάι (tsái) (possibly via a Slavic language)
* → Hijazi Arabic: چاي (čāy)
* → Karachay-Balkar: шай (şay)
* → Karakalpak: чай
* → Kazakh: шай (şai)
* → Northern Kurdish: çay
    → Lishana Deni: גׄאייה (čāye)
* → Kyrgyz: чай (cay)
* → Macedonian: чај (čaj)
* → Russian: чай (čaj) (see there for further descendants)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чај
    Latin script: čaj
* → Slovene: čaj
* → Lower Sorbian: čaj (literary)
* → Southern Altai: чай (čay)
* → Tatar: чәй (çäy)
* → Turkmen: çay
* → Uyghur: چاي (chay)
* → Uzbek: choy
* → Zazaki: çay

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 575
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çay2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 906
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 178b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 466
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çay1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čāj (“river”); cognate with Azerbaijani çay.

#### Noun

چای • (çay) (definite accusative چایی (çayı), plural چایلر (çaylar))
* rivulet, creek, brook, burn, a body of running water smaller than a river
    Synonyms: جدول (cedvel), دره (dere)

##### Derived terms

* چای یولی (çay yolu, “creek-bed, brook-bed”)
* چایه صو قاتمق (çaya su katmak, “to do something useless”, literally “to add water to a creek”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çay

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 574
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çay1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 906
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 178b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 466
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rivus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1488
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1571
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çay2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712

## Pashto
### Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃɑi/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

چای • (čây) m (plural چای)
* tea

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* چایی (čâyi)
* چائی (čâ'i)
* چا (čâ)

### Etymology

From possibly چا +‎ ـی or Chinese 茶葉 / 茶叶 (cháyè).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃɑːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːj]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːj]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäj]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɒːj]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɔj]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

چای • (čây) (plural چای‌ها (čây-hâ))
* tea

#### Derived terms

* چایخانه (čây-xâne, “teahouse”)
* چایدان (čây-dân, “tea caddy”)
* چای‌جوش (čây-jôš, “kettle”)
* چای سبز (čây-e sabz, “green tea”)
* چای‌گیر (čây-gir, “tea thermos”)
* چای کیسه‌ای (čây-e kise'i, “teabag”)
* شیر چای (šir čây, “milk tea”)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: شَاي (šāy), صَاي (ṣāy), صَا (ṣā)
** → Amharic: ሻይ (šay)
** → Gulay: sáȳ, sáyā
** → Hausa: shāyì
*** → Nupe: shayì
** → Hijazi Arabic: شاهي (šāhi)
** → Libyan Arabic: شاهي (šāhi)
** → Mango: sáỳ
* → Gulf Arabic: چاي
** → Swahili: chai
*** → Mabaan: caayi
* → Aramaic: ܟ݈ܐܝ (chai)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चाय (cāy), चा (cā)
    Urdu: چای (ćāy), چا (cā)
** → English: chai, cha, char
** → French: chai
** → German: Chai
** → Japanese: チャイ (chai)
** → Korean: 차이 (chai)
** → Swahili: chai
* → Kalasha: čay
* → Khalaj: čây
* → Konkani: चा (cā), च्या (cyā)
* → Malayalam: ചായ (cāya)
* → Marathi: चहा (cahā)
* → Mongolian: цай (caj) ᠴᠠᠢ (čai)
* → Odia: ଚା (cā)
* → Pashto: چای (čây)
* → Punjabi: ਚਾਹ (cāh) / چاہ (cāh)
* → Sindhi: چانھ (čānhi)
* → Ottoman Turkish: چای (çay) (see there for further descendants)
* → Turkmen: çaý

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چای (čāy), ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t͡ʃɑːj/

### Noun

چای • (cāy) f (Hindi spelling चाय)
* Alternative form of چائے (cāe, “tea, chai”)