"oolong tea" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: oolong teas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 烏龍茶/乌龙茶 (wūlóngchá), from 烏龍/乌龙 (wūlóng, “black dragon”) + 茶 (chá, “tea”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|烏龍茶|tr=wūlóngchá}} Mandarin 烏龍茶/乌龙茶 (wūlóngchá), {{m|cmn|烏龍||black dragon|tr=wūlóng}} 烏龍/乌龙 (wūlóng, “black dragon”), {{m|cmn|茶||tea|tr=chá}} 茶 (chá, “tea”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} oolong tea (countable and uncountable, plural oolong teas)
  1. A type of tea with a taste in between green tea and black tea. Wikipedia link: oolong Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Tea Translations (type of tea): কালোনাগ (kalōnag) [calque] (Bengali), 烏龍茶 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 乌龙茶 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 烏龍茶 (Chinese Cantonese), 乌龙茶 (alt: wu¹ lung⁴⁻² caa⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 烏龍茶 (Chinese Mandarin), 乌龙茶 (wūlóng chá) (Chinese Mandarin), ŭulong-teo (Esperanto), blua teo (Esperanto), oolong-tee (Finnish), thé oolong [masculine] (French), Oolong-Tee [masculine] (German), कालानाग (kālānāg) [calque] (Hindi), tè oolong [masculine] (Italian), oolong [masculine] (Italian), tè blu [masculine, rare] (Italian), 烏竜茶 (Japanese), 烏龍茶 (Japanese), ウーロン茶 (ūroncha) (Japanese), 우롱차 (urongcha) (Korean), وولونګ چای (wûlong čây) [masculine] (Pashto), улу́н (ulún) [masculine] (Russian), чай улу́н (čaj ulún) [masculine] (Russian), té de oolong [masculine] (Spanish), té oolong [masculine] (Spanish), ชาอูหลง (chaa-uu-lǒng) (Thai), ۋۇلۇڭ چېيى (wulung chëyi) (Uyghur), trà ô long (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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