Tee

Tee

1. An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tee terms

From Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ). Doublet of Chung.

Tee

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

It can also be an English surname or stage / professional surname.

Tee (plural Tees)

1. Alternative letter-case form of tee.

• EET

Tee m (diminutive Teeli)

1. alternative spelling of Thee

Ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê), probably through Dutch thee and German Tee.

• IPA^(key): /d̥ɛː/, /tʰɛː/

Tee m

1. tee

Ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê), probably through Dutch thee. Attested since the 17th century.

• IPA^(key): /teː/
• Rhymes: -eː

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Tee m (strong, genitive Tees, plural (sorts of tea) Tees or (servings of tea) Tee)

1. tea (drink made by infusing parts of a plant, especially leaves or buds of Camellia sinensis, in water)

• Thee (until early 20th c.)

• → Estonian: tee
• → Hunsrik: Tee
• → Lower Sorbian: tej
• → Romansh: te, té, tè
• → Silesian: tyj
• → Silesian East Central German: Tee
• → Vilamovian: tyy
• → Zipser German: Tee

Borrowed from English tee.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Tee n (strong, genitive Tees, plural Tees)

1. (golf) tee

• “Tee”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Tee” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Tee” in Duden online
• Tee on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Borrowed from German Tee,^[1] borrowed from Dutch thee, borrowed from Hokkien 茶 (tê). Doublet of Cha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰeː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: Tee

Tee m (plural Tee)

1. tea

   Synonym: Cha

3. (Rio Grande do Sul, strictly) maté (hot drink)

   Synonyms: Schimarong, Matt

   • 2021, Piter Kehoma Boll, “Tee”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 162, column 2:

     Vaam-mer en Tee drinke?

     Let's drink some maté?

4. (Rio Grande do Sul, metonymic) yerba mate

• Te, Thee

Borrowed from Hokkien 戴 (Tè).

Tee

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hokkien.

From German Tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Tee m

1. tea

Tee f (plural Teeen)

1. toe

Tee m

1. tea

Borrowed from English Tee, from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ) and 戴 (Tì). Doublet of Ty.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ti/ [t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: Tee

Tee (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

• Te

From Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Tee

1. tea (drink)

• Anton-Joseph Ilk, Zipser Volksgut aus dem Wassertal (1990), page 141