chá

• IPA^(key): [ˈxaː]

chá n (indeclinable)

1. 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

• chan

From Old Galician-Portuguese chãa, from Latin plana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -a

chá f (plural chás)

1. plain
2. mesa; plateau

• Chá
• Chás
• Chan
• Chanciña
• Chans

chá f sg

1. feminine singular of chan

• Terra Chá
• Terrachá

• 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

• IPA^(key): /tʃʰa⁵⁵/

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chá

1. (Patsho) foilage; leafage

   Cha nü lütiohva.

   Burn the foliage.

Borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), uncertain whether via Portuguese or later lent to Portuguese.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa/

chá

1. tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
2. 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

3. 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”)

4. a late afternoon meal

   chá gordo ― festive luncheon served in the late afternoon (literally, “fat tea”)

• chatôm
• iam-chá

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• cha — nonstandard
• ĉá — very rare shorthand

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chá (cha², Zhuyin ㄔㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茶
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 垞
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 察
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嵖
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 搽
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 查
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 査
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 楁
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 槎
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檫
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痄
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碴
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秅
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苳
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茬
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荻
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詧
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鍤 / 锸
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 锸
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𣱱

From Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴, “tea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

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• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: xá
• Hyphenation: chá

chá m (plural chás)

1. tea plant (Camellia sinensis, a bush whose leaves are used to make tea)
2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing parts of plants)
3. a late afternoon meal
4. (slang) any drug made by infusing a substance
5. (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

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰá(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: chá

chá (stem -chá-)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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.

2. to bargain

   chá thứ ngòi

   Try bargaining.

chá

1. mount (object on which another object is mounted)

   chá tặt pừn toòng ― mount for basins

2. frame

   chá tu ― door frame

chá

1. 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

1. (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

From Chinese 假 (MC kaeX).

chá (假)

1. 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

1. (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
• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]