"ceai" meaning in Romanian

See ceai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃe̯aj/ Audio: LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], ceai [accusative, indefinite, nominative], ceaiul [accusative, definite, nominative], ceai [dative, genitive, indefinite], ceaiului [dative, definite, genitive], ceaiule [vocative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|ota|چای}} Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای, {{bor|ro|ru|чай|nocat=1}} Russian чай (čaj), {{der|ro|fa|چای}} Persian چای, {{der|ro|zh|茶}} Chinese 茶 (chá) Head templates: {{ro-noun|mn|-}} ceai m or n (uncountable) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun-single|gpd=ceaiilor|gpi=ceaii|gsd=ceaiului|gsi=ceai|n=sg|npd=ceaiii|npi=ceaii|nsd=ceaiul|nsi=ceai|vp=ceaiilor|vs=ceaiule|vs2=}}
  1. tea bush Tags: masculine, neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ceai-ro-noun-5rtadM9A Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header, Ericales order plants Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 31 31 36 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 25 49 1 1 Disambiguation of Romanian entries with incorrect language header: 97 2 2 Disambiguation of Ericales order plants: 59 20 20

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃe̯aj/ Audio: LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|ota|چای}} Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای, {{bor|ro|ru|чай|nocat=1}} Russian чай (čaj), {{der|ro|fa|چای}} Persian چای, {{der|ro|zh|茶}} Chinese 茶 (chá) Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|ceaiuri}} ceai n (plural ceaiuri) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|gpd=ceaiurilor|gpi=ceaiuri|gsd=ceaiului|gsi=ceai|n=|npd=ceaiurile|npi=ceaiuri|nsd=ceaiul|nsi=ceai|vp=ceaiurilor|vs=ceaiule|vs2=}} Forms: ceaiuri [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], ceai [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], ceaiul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], ceaiuri [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], ceaiurile [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], ceai [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], ceaiului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], ceaiuri [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], ceaiurilor [dative, definite, genitive, plural], ceaiule [singular, vocative], ceaiurilor [plural, vocative]
  1. tea Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-ceai-ro-noun-qfdNHsNu Categories (other): Tea Disambiguation of Tea: 37 50 14
  2. tea time Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-ceai-ro-noun-Bz-zp35U
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ceainic

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "чай",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian чай (čaj)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian چای",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mn",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ceai m or n (uncountable)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "ceaiilor",
        "gpi": "ceaii",
        "gsd": "ceaiului",
        "gsi": "ceai",
        "n": "sg",
        "npd": "ceaiii",
        "npi": "ceaii",
        "nsd": "ceaiul",
        "nsi": "ceai",
        "vp": "ceaiilor",
        "vs": "ceaiule",
        "vs2": ""
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 31 36 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 49 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 20 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ro",
          "name": "Ericales order plants",
          "orig": "ro:Ericales order plants",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tea bush"
      ],
      "id": "en-ceai-ro-noun-5rtadM9A",
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ],
        [
          "bush",
          "bush"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃe̯aj/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ceai"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "чай",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian чай (čaj)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian چای",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-n-uri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurilor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurilor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n",
        "2": "ceaiuri"
      },
      "expansion": "ceai n (plural ceaiuri)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "ceaiurilor",
        "gpi": "ceaiuri",
        "gsd": "ceaiului",
        "gsi": "ceai",
        "n": "",
        "npd": "ceaiurile",
        "npi": "ceaiuri",
        "nsd": "ceaiul",
        "nsi": "ceai",
        "vp": "ceaiurilor",
        "vs": "ceaiule",
        "vs2": ""
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ceainic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 50 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ro",
          "name": "Tea",
          "orig": "ro:Tea",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tea"
      ],
      "id": "en-ceai-ro-noun-qfdNHsNu",
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea time"
      ],
      "id": "en-ceai-ro-noun-Bz-zp35U",
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃe̯aj/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ceai"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Romanian countable nouns",
    "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Romanian lemmas",
    "Romanian masculine nouns",
    "Romanian neuter nouns",
    "Romanian nouns",
    "Romanian nouns with multiple genders",
    "Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Romanian terms derived from Chinese",
    "Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Romanian terms derived from Persian",
    "Romanian uncountable nouns",
    "ro:Ericales order plants",
    "ro:Tea"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "чай",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian чай (čaj)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian چای",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mn",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ceai m or n (uncountable)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "ceaiilor",
        "gpi": "ceaii",
        "gsd": "ceaiului",
        "gsi": "ceai",
        "n": "sg",
        "npd": "ceaiii",
        "npi": "ceaii",
        "nsd": "ceaiul",
        "nsi": "ceai",
        "vp": "ceaiilor",
        "vs": "ceaiule",
        "vs2": ""
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea bush"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ],
        [
          "bush",
          "bush"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃe̯aj/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ceai"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Romanian countable nouns",
    "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Romanian lemmas",
    "Romanian masculine nouns",
    "Romanian neuter nouns",
    "Romanian nouns",
    "Romanian nouns with multiple genders",
    "Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Romanian terms derived from Chinese",
    "Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Romanian terms derived from Persian",
    "Romanian uncountable nouns",
    "ro:Ericales order plants",
    "ro:Tea"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "чай",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian чай (čaj)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "چای"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian چای",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (possibly through Russian чай (čaj)), from Persian چای, from Chinese 茶 (chá).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-n-uri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiuri",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurilor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceaiurilor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n",
        "2": "ceaiuri"
      },
      "expansion": "ceai n (plural ceaiuri)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "ceaiurilor",
        "gpi": "ceaiuri",
        "gsd": "ceaiului",
        "gsi": "ceai",
        "n": "",
        "npd": "ceaiurile",
        "npi": "ceaiuri",
        "nsd": "ceaiul",
        "nsi": "ceai",
        "vp": "ceaiurilor",
        "vs": "ceaiule",
        "vs2": ""
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ceainic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea time"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃe̯aj/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ceai.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav/LL-Q7913_%28ron%29-Andreea_Teodoraa-ceai.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ceai"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ceai meaning in Romanian (6.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Romanian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.