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chá n (indeclinable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Ch/ch.
- “chá”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “chá”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
From Old Galician-Portuguese chãa, from Latin plana.
chá f (plural chás)
chá f sg
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chãa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chá”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
chá
Borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa4), uncertain whether via Portuguese or later lent to Portuguese.
chá
- tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
- tea (infusion made with tea leaves)
- chá co sucre ― tea with sugar
- vazâ chá ― to serve tea
Dâ unga xicra di chá pa iou
- Bring me a cup of tea
- any drink made with an infusion of medicinal plants
- chá di hortelám di sopa ― spearmint tea
- chá di pêlo-pê ― infusion to ward off frights (literally, “hair-feet tea”)
- chá di peso ― infusion to protect against indigestion or stomachache (literally, “tea of weight”)
- a late afternoon meal
- chá gordo ― festive luncheon served in the late afternoon (literally, “fat tea”)
- cha — nonstandard
- ĉá — very rare shorthand
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茶
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 垞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 察
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嵖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 搽
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 查
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 査
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 楁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 槎
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碴
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茬
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荻
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鍤 / 锸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 锸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𣱱
From Cantonese 茶 (caa4, “tea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.
chá m (plural chás)
- tea plant (Camellia sinensis, a bush whose leaves are used to make tea)
- (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing parts of plants)
- a late afternoon meal
- (slang) any drug made by infusing a substance
- (Brazil) shower (party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts)
- chá de bebê ― baby shower
- “chá” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “chá”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “chá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
chá (stem -chá-)
- Fort Liard form of tsá
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 37
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [caː˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [caː˦]
From Chinese 價 (MC kaeH). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨣ᩵ᩤ, Lao ຄ່າ (khā), Lü ᦅᦱᧈ (kaa¹), Shan ၵႃႈ (kāa), Thai ค่า (kâa). Compare Vietnamese cả (as in giá cả).
chá (價)
- price
- dú chá háng ― market prices
cúa xằng mí chá
- The products don't have prices yet.
mác lịch chá cân hả slíp xiên
- The cost for chestnuts will be fifty thousand [dong] per kilo.
chá
- to ask for something's price
- chá vài lặm cừa ― to ask for the buffalo's price behind the bushes; to buy a product without knowing its price
chá ngòi kỉ lai chèn
- Ask how much it costs.
- to bargain
chá thứ ngòi
- Try bargaining.
chá
- mount (object on which another object is mounted)
- chá tặt pừn toòng ― mount for basins
- frame
- chá tu ― door frame
chá
- not firm; weak; flimsy; frail
nghé cẩu nảy chá lai dá
- This bridge's so weak already.
nghé tu chá dá
- The door isn't looking very sturdy.
chá
- (before nouns, especially noun phrases with words of number) numerous
- rì chá pác và ― to be several arm spans long
- chá pác chá xiên ― in the hundreds and thousands
chá (假)
- fake; not real
- cúa chá ― fake products
保真𱽗欣假
- Bấu chăn rầư hăn chá
- How can one knows whether it's fake when it's not real?
chá
- (used sentence-finally) that's all; merely; only; just
bấu khai đảy lẻ au mà chá
- Just pack it home if you can't sell it.
- Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội