Urdu cāy belongs to the cha/chay family ultimately derived from Chinese chá; Rekhta labels the current Urdu headword Persian in origin, while the graph does not invent an exact dated Persian-to-Urdu event.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0543overland borrowing routeprobable
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چائے
tea plant, leaves, beverage, infusion, and tea gathering
OPEN NODE 584 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedMandarin Chinese · modern Mandarin · tea beverage茶
tea
OPEN NODE 235 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
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The general tea meaning remains, with local extensions to infusions and social tea.
Overland transmission into the Hindi–Urdu continuum before the modern English culinary borrowing.
Rekhta Dictionary Editors · Östen Dahl · Merriam-Webster Editors
probable — Rekhta supports Persian origin; WALS and Merriam-Webster support the wider overland family but do not establish one complete sequence of intermediaries.
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SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
Chapter 138: TeaChapter 138 — overland cha/chai-type distribution
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Places Urdu in the wider overland family without fixing every intermediary.
Chai — Definition and Word HistoryEtymology — Hindi and Urdu chay among the source forms
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently places Urdu in the wider English chai source family.
چائے — Rekhta DictionaryHeadword چائے — Origin: Persian; tea senses
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the current Urdu form, semantic field, and Persian source label.
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