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▪ I. cha, chah
Also tcha, chau, chaw.
[Chinese (Mandarin) ch'a tea. Also in earlier It. cia (Florio), Russ. tchaĭ tea.]
Properly, the name of tea in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, which was occasionally used in English at the first introduction of the beverage. (Some subsequently applied it as a name to the special form of rolled tea used in Central Asia.) Now used slang for ‘tea’; cf. chai, char n.6
1616Cocks Diary I. 215 (Y.), I sent..a silver chaw pot and a fan to Capt. China wife. 1655tr. Semedo's China 19 Chá is a leaf of a tree in China, about the bigness of Mirtle. 1656Blount Glossogr., Cha. [Hence in Phillips, Kersey, Bailey.]1658Mercurius Polit. 30 Sept. (Advt.) That excellent..drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee. 1742Bailey, Cha, Tea, which the Chinese steeping in Water, use as their common Drink. 1885Ogilvie, Cha (Hind.), a kind of tea, rolled up like tobacco, which goes to the interior of Asia. 1919Downing Digger Dial. 15 Chai (Arab.) or cha (Hind.), tea. 1930N. & Q. 22 Mar. 206/2 The army slang ‘Cha’ in the sense of tea. 1935E. Weekley Something about Words x. 183 A bus-driver, who would probably..describe tea as chah. 1940Manch. Guardian Weekly 6 Sept. 165/4 Untrammelled canteen helpers are sometimes mystified by requests for ‘chah’ from thirsty soldiers.
▪ II. cha Obs.,
I have: see ch pron. |