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BeverEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As a Dutch and north/Low German surname, from the noun bever (“beaver”). * As an English surname, variant of Beaver.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗beverEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English bever, from Anglo-Norman bever (modern French boire), from Latin bibō. Doublet of imbibe.
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nounhistorical form
chai
In current English, a South Asian-style tea commonly prepared with milk and spices; the word belongs to the overland cha/chay transmission family ultimately derived from Chinese 茶.
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tea
The English name of the beverage, carried through the Dutch maritime network from a Southern Min form of the Chinese word 茶.
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çay
The Turkish word for tea, ultimately Chinese but analyzed in Turkish scholarship as reaching historical Turkey Turkish through Persian as a bridge language.
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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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Present-Day English / Indo-European
chai
a tea beverage commonly prepared with spices, milk, and sweetener
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- 1984–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
tea
the leaves of Camellia sinensis or a beverage made by infusing them
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- 1655–today
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Turkish / Turkic
çay
tea plant, leaves, beverage, and later social-event senses
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- Turkey Turkish record–today
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- gloss
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Urdu / Indo-European
چائے
cāytea plant, leaves, beverage, infusion, and tea gathering
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- standard modern Urdu
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- gloss
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- 1
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