Words that come from Classical Malay “putih”

400 words across 59 languages descend from Classical Malay putih — including tea, teaspoon, teaspoonful, monotheism, teapot, theism, teacup, TEA.

See the etymology of putih itself →

Telugu (104)

English (82)

Finnish (23)

Swedish (21)

German (18)

Hungarian (14)

Dutch (12)

Danish (11)

Malay (9)

Indonesian (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

French (6)

Estonian (5)

Italian (5)

Polish (4)

Ahtna (4)

Burmese (4)

Translingual (3)

Japanese (3)

Esperanto (3)

Czech (3)

Welsh (2)

Lithuanian (2)

Greenlandic (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Tamil (2)

Choctaw (1)

Chuukese (1)

Hausa (1)

Volapük (1)

Irish (1)

Turkish (1)

Maori (1)

Armenian (1)

Greek (1)

Silesian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Kashubian (1)

Cornish (1)

Ido (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Xhosa (1)

Norman (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Chichewa (1)

Romanian (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Hunsrik (1)

New Latin (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Latvian (1)

Moroccan Arabic (1)

Old Anatolian Turkish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Yiddish (1)

Proto-Zapotecan (1)

Proto-Chatino (1)