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Polish language has "herbata", which is a third one, from herbs.
by yetihehe 9y ago
Polish language has "herbata", which is a third one, from herbs.
- mziel 9y agoIt comes from "herba thea" (herbal tea) so you could argue that it should still be classified under "tea" origin.
- Tade0 9y agoDerived from the latin herba thea ("herbal tea").
- kornakiewicz 9y agoThat's partially true. It's from "herba thea", so basically redundantly added the "herb" part to the common tea name.
- Mikeb85 9y agoA steeped beverage from non-tea herbs isn't tea.
- kybernetikos 9y agoThis is not true from a language/ word usage point of view. E.g https://www.amazon.co.uk/dandelion-tea/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adandelion%20tea https://www.amazon.co.uk/dandelion-tea/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i...
- kriro 9y agoWell yes the term tea is used "in the wrong way" a lot and one could argue that it is common enough that it's the right usage these days (language evolves etc.). But technically tea is only from camelia sinensis varieties. So the "herbal teas" should technically be called something else like tisane.
- brigade 9y agoChinese call herbal teas “liang cha”; the argument that “herbal tea” should not be called tea is a somewhat modern English notion. Other languages freely use tea/cha for infusions of many plants. Heck, why not argue that any “tisane” not made from barley isn’t a real tisane.
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- idlewords 9y agoPoland represent! We also have a word for "woman" that is unlike any other Slavic language. Polish goes its own way.
- Keyframe 9y agoOther slavic languages (croatian here) also have that word, similar. It means something different though. It meant (that) something different in polish too. "A bit" offensive, haha.
- danielam 9y agoIf you mean "kobieta", from what I understand, it used to be offensive until about the 19th century, but the etymology of it is unclear and contested. I have no idea by what process it ceased to be offensive.
- jasonvm 9y agoIf you don't mind my asking: what word is that? I'm only familiar with žena (I speak some Croatian but not enough to know archaisms)
- Keyframe 9y agoKobieta, kobila in croatian meaning mare.
- pvg 9y agoThat's not the same word. https://goo.gl/7ZZTrd https://goo.gl/7ZZTrd
- Keyframe 9y agoI don't know russian and can't read most of that anyways. Here's for polish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kobieta https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kobieta and it's definitely mare in croatian, and via that same in all languages in the region since we share large volume of vocabulary.
- summner 9y agoBut where do we boil water for "herba-ta"? In "Czajnik" (keetle), where root "czaj" most definately comes from "cha".
- k3liutZu 9y agoAnd the close neighbors of Romania we say "ceainic" to kettle which does come from the root word "ceai".
- paganel 9y agoIn Southern Romania we tend to use "ibric" more, which comes directly from Turkish.
- chewz 9y agoIn Poland we also have a word 'imbryk' for a teapot but it is rarely used nowadays.
- Mediterraneo10 9y agoIn Transylvania, ibric is just the small pot used to brew Turkish coffee, while a tea kettle is ceainic. The terms don’t overlap. I recently heard from a Turk that ibrik in Turkish today refers only to the small bucket used for washing oneself in Middle Eastern toilets. For the pot used to brew coffee, they say cezve.
- jutaz 9y agoLithuanians call tea as "arbata", and it's boiled in "arbatinis". It also has nothing to do with "herbs". AFAIK, there is no reference to the word tea or cha anywhere in terms of tea.
- spfix63 9y agoClearly, arbata comes from the same herbal tea origin, just the h got dropped somewhere along the way, herb -> arba, tea -> ta
- rimliu 9y agoAnd in Lithuanian it is "arbata", likely from the Polish "herbata" :)