having coffee, tea, saft (“cordial, squash”), or the like, usually with cookies, pastries, or other (sweet) snacks, usually with others, as a social activity · a coffee (or tea, etc.) break, when taking a break to do the above
çekim: çoğul fikor · tamlayan fikas
köken: This sense is attested in writing from 1910. One possible explanation is that the word is formed by backslang of the syllables in the dialectal word kaffi (“coffee”), from Dutch koffie or a similar source. Another possible etymology is that it is derived from the older verb fika (desire, crave – see § Etymology 2), in the sense of craving something sweet.
köken: Probably borrowed from German Halberabend (“half evening”) in its local dialectal form *holwrabnd. Cognate with Pannonian Rusyn оловранти m inan pl (olovranti).
tea plant (Camellia sinensis) · tea leaves (leaves of the tea plant, especially processed and dried) · tea (infusion of tea leaves, or of the leaves of other, similar plants)
çekim: çoğul tējas · tamlayan tējas
köken: From Hokkien (POJ: tê, Chinese: 茶), via Dutch thee. The Mandarin pronunciation of the same word — tša — gave rise to the word for “tea” in other European languages (compare Russian чай (čaj), Portuguese chá).
köken: From English tea, from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).