Polish language has "herbata", which is a third one, from herbs.
That's partially true. It's from "herba thea", so basically redundantly added the "herb" part to the common tea name.
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
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#12There are exceptions since the Portuguese brought tea from India to Europe by sea, and still they call it "cha"
Some people in England also use "cha" as slang for tea. It's not widely used, but it is present.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18152/british-us...
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#13And what about South America ?
In Brazil, at least, the Portuguese 'cha' is used
Re: Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
#14There are exceptions since the Portuguese brought tea from India to Europe by sea, and still they call it "cha"
Some people in England also use "cha" as slang for tea. It's not widely used, but it is present. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18152/british-us...
Likely that influence comes from when India was part of the British Empire. Lots of Indian-derived words made it into British English.
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#15There are exceptions since the Portuguese brought tea from India to Europe by sea, and still they call it "cha"
from China
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#16And what about South America ?
In spanish, té. I presume yerba mate falls in a different hot steeped beverage category.
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#17It can also refer to food like lunch or dinner which the danish school system did not prepare me for in their english lessons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)#Tea_as_the_evening_...
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#18Moroccan arabic actually uses both word: the classical "shay" and "atay", which is more common.
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#19Kind of strange that this refers to "Sinitic" contrasting to "Min Nan" when Min Nan is a Sinitic language.
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