Words that come from Sinitic “茶”

148 words across 69 languages descend from Sinitic 茶 — including chai, چای, çay, shaj, ча́йник, czajnik, чай, čaj.

See the etymology of 茶 itself →

Albanian (16)

Russian (11)

Turkish (8)

Romanian (6)

Northern Yukaghir (5)

English (4)

Macedonian (4)

Persian (4)

Inupiaq (4)

Polish (3)

Hindi (3)

Finnish (3)

Ahtna (3)

Ingrian (3)

Urdu (2)

Slovak (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Armenian (2)

Arabic (2)

Georgian (2)

Skolt Sami (2)

Bulgarian (2)

Swahili (2)

Ladino (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Alutiiq (2)

Rwanda-Rundi (2)

Votic (2)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (2)

Greek (1)

Veps (1)

Central Kurdish (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Yiddish (1)

Bashkir (1)

Kurdish (1)

Gulf Arabic (1)

Libyan Arabic (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Zazaki (1)

Ngazidja Comorian (1)

Mongolian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Uyghur (1)

Classical Mongolian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Southern Altai (1)

Northern Kurdish (1)

Urum (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Luganda (1)

Afar (1)

Russenorsk (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Khalaj (1)

Turkmen (1)

Kalasha (1)

Alutor (1)

Northern Mansi (1)

Kildin Sami (1)

Ubykh (1)

Yakut (1)

Erzya (1)

Nivkh (1)

Udmurt (1)

Tajik (1)

Lishana Deni (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)