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], [ʃæj]
Hyphenation: шай

Noun

шай • (şai)

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)

tea

References

N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “шай”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) [Northern Dialect of Altai -Kumandin Dialect(Kumandin kiži)], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN

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