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START / NODE 584Urdustandard modern Urdu
چائے
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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Urduچائے
tea plant, leaves, beverage, infusion, and tea gathering
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Mandarin Chinese · modern Mandarin茶tea
- SOUND CHANGE
- 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.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The general tea meaning remains, with local extensions to infusions and social tea.
- SCHOLAR
- Rekhta Dictionary Editors · Östen Dahl · Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — Rekhta supports Persian origin; WALS and Merriam-Webster support the wider overland family but do not establish one complete sequence of intermediaries.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Overland transmission into the Hindi–Urdu continuum before the modern English culinary borrowing.
3 CITATIONSChapter 138: TeaChapter 138 — overland cha/chai-type distribution Chai — Definition and Word HistoryEtymology — Hindi and Urdu chay among the source forms چائے — Rekhta DictionaryHeadword چائے — Origin: Persian; tea senses AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 543 ↗
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ORIGINAL ↗Independently places Urdu in the wider English chai source family.
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