茶 (cha).
"Cha" is a 3-letter Chinese word for tea.
The word "tea" was borrowed from the Mandarin Chinese word "chá" (茶) during the 17th century.
The word cha, from english to chinese, is 茶 and 茶 from chinese to english translates into the word tea, or tea plant.
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Chinese. The Chinese originally called it "Kia".
茶 [chá] ---> tea
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it is a Chinese word originally called 'Kia' first used about 2500BC. Many centuries later the word evolved into Cha and later in England into Te from which the more modern word of Tea evolved
The Malay word is Teh and from the Chinese Amoy dialect T'e, and in Mandrin Ch'a
The Malay word is Teh and from the Chinese Amoy dialect T'e, and in Mandrin Ch'a
Tea is an imported herb. In the distant past, tea was unknown in many countries. The tea plant grows well in China, India and other hot countries with suitable climates and soils.Perhaps the English word comes from the French, tè, or Spanish te, all of which doubtless came originally from the Chinese tcha, or tha.When tea first arrived in England in the 1660s it was describes as 'a china drink', because it came from that country, and a regular trade of imported tea from China was established.It wasn't until the 1800s that the British introduced tea plantations to India, by which time 'chinese' 'tea' drinking had already become very popular in England.