English
Etymology
Either a partial calque of Mandarin 烏龍茶 / 乌龙茶 (wūlóngchá), or directly from Hokkien 烏龍茶 / 乌龙茶 (o͘-liông-tê), from 烏龍 / 乌龙 (o͘-liông, literally “black dragon”) + 茶 (tê, “tea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuː.lʊŋ tʰi/, /ˈoː.loŋ tʰi/
Noun
oolong tea (countable and uncountable, plural oolong teas)
- A type of tea with a taste in between green tea and black tea.
- Synonym: oolong
Translations
type of tea
- Bengali: কালোনাগ (kalōnag) (calque)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 烏龍茶 / 乌龙茶 (wu1 lung4-2 caa4)
- Hokkien: 烏龍茶 / 乌龙茶 (zh-min-nan) (o͘-liông-tê)
- Mandarin: 烏龍茶 / 乌龙茶 (zh) (wūlóng chá)
- Esperanto: ŭulong-teo, blua teo
- Finnish: oolong-tee
- French: thé oolong (fr) m
- German: Oolong-Tee m
- Hindi: कालानाग (hi) (kālānāg) (calque)
- Italian: tè oolong m, oolong m, tè blu m (rare)
- Japanese: 烏竜茶, 烏龍茶 (ja), ウーロン茶 (ja) (ūroncha)
- Korean: 우롱차 (urongcha)
- Marathi: ऊलाँग चहा m (ūlŏṅga cahā)
- Pashto: وولونګ چای m (wûlong čây)
- Russian: улу́н (ru) m (ulún), чай улу́н m (čaj ulún)
- Spanish: té de oolong m, té oolong m
- Thai: ชาอูหลง (chaa-uu-lǒng)
- Uyghur: ۋۇلۇڭ چېيى (wulung chëyi)
- Vietnamese: trà ô long (vi)
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