шай

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	شاي
Cyrillic	шай
Latin	şai
Yañalif	cai

Alternative forms

• шәй (şäi)

Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃɑ̝j], [ɕæj]
• Hyphenation: шай

Noun

шай • (şai)

1. tea

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• шайхана (şaixana, “teahouse”)

 

Northern Altai

Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá). Cognate to Tofa шэй (šey), etc.

Noun

шай • (šay)

1. tea

References

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “шай”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži), Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN