tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis) · tea (the drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water) · tea (a variety of the tea plant)
çekim: çoğul čaje · tamlayan čaje
eş: té, tej
köken: Ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá). Cognates include Russian чай (čaj).
köken: From Old Danish thē, from Old Norse þeir, from Proto-Germanic *þai. Usage of this word as a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun is a semantic loan from English they.
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan aygua~ayga, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. First attested in 1169. Compare Occitan aiga, French eau, Spanish agua.
From Old Tamil 𑀦𑀻𑀭𑁰 (nīr), from Proto-Dravidian *nīr. Cognates Cognate with Badaga நீரு (nīru), Brahui دیر (dīr), Kannada ನೀರು (nīru), Malayalam നീര് (nīrŭ), Telugu నీరు (nīru), Toda நீர் (nīr), Tulu ನೀರ್ (nīrŭ). Compare Sanskrit नीर (nīra), borrowed from Dravidian. Bears superficial resemblance to Proto-Semitic *nahar- (“river”).