tej

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጅ (ṭäǧ, “honey wine, mead”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]

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tej (usually uncountable, plural tej)

1. A type of honey wine or mead from Ethiopia and Eritrea typically served in a specialized glass vessel known as a berele.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

     She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.

   • 2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2024:

     Amharic for “honey wine,” tej is an Ethiopian drink that kings, queens, and other royals have enjoyed for thousands of years. […] ¶ Tej is an ancient, fermented spirit mostly made from raw honey, water, and wild yeast. […] ¶ They toasted each other with the tej she brought.

• Jet, jet

• (Gheg) pertei (“sopra, di là”). ^[1]

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.^[2]

tej

1. far
2. beyond

• përtej, përtejmë

Borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, “to suck”), Middle Persian [script needed] (dāyag, “nurse”), Persian دایه (dâye, “nurse”), Northern Kurdish da (“mother”), Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, “to suck, drink”). Cognate also with old Southern Mansi -тай (-taj) (in сыртай (syrtaj, “milk”)), both possibly via Proto-Ugric *täjɜ.^[1] The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛj]

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)

1. milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
2. milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
3. (in compound words) dairy

   tejgazdaság ― dairy farm

• tej in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• ejt

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: tej

Borrowed from German Tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

tej m inan

1. tea

• čaj (literary)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tej

1. inflection of ten:
   1. dative/locative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

tej m inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter t/T.

• (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: tej

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tej

1. (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun

• tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN