SOURCE 01supportsinstitutional lexicon
چائے — Rekhta Dictionary
Supplies the immediate-source label.
Headword metadata — Origin: Persian- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Rekhta Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Rekhta Foundation
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 187
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openprobable
Did Urdu receive cāy directly from Chinese or through Persian?
Rekhta labels the current Urdu headword Persian in origin, while the wider references establish only the Chinese-derived overland family. Persian is therefore probable as the immediate source, not promoted as a uniquely dated event.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 187
چائے
/tʃɑː.eː/ · noun
The standard modern Urdu word for tea, recorded by Rekhta with Persian origin and a historical trail through older spellings such as چا and چاہ.
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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 02contexttypological database
Chapter 138: Tea
Supplies ultimate Chinese-family context without a local event sequence.
Chapter 138 — overland cha family- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Östen Dahl
- YEAR
- 2013
- PUBLISHER
- The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Urdu lexicography supplies the Persian label; WALS and Merriam-Webster supply the broader family context.
The edge encodes the overland family and states the probable Persian relay in its confidence note.