teh

teh

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tehuelche.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tehuelche terms

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

• enPR: tĕ, IPA^(key): /tɛ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛ

teh

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect.

   This is teh game for your new box!

   You are teh haxor!

   • 2007 October, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, page 14:

     This Beowulf is based on a new animated movie of the same name... so yes, this counts as yet another game based on a movie, which basically relegates it to teh suck status in the minds of most.

   • 2010, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 10:

     Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.

   • 2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 78:

     Awl teh booze got drink, an Happy Cat's momz was liek, “Dey gotz no booze. Dis parti iz teh suck!”

• Teh is sometimes used in deliberately ungrammatical ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence within the scope of teh usage, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

• the, eth-, Eth., ETH, Eth, het, EHT, HET, eth, the-, -eth

• (Myanmar) /tɛ˦˧/

teh

1. to be like, resemble
   • 2010, “2 Samuel 14:2”, in Ngochang Common Language Bible‎^[1], Yangon: Bible Society of Myanmar:

     Shishenh nyangh nyangh svsoh kuk nyeis dah vmesbih teh kuot aq.

     Act like a woman who has been grieving for a very long time.

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 123

A prefixed derivative of eh.

teh m (plural tehe, definite tehu, definite plural tehet)

1. blade

• eh

• tĕh

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)ɛh, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iʔ ~ *t₁ih ~ *t₁iəh (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon တိ (tɔeˀ, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ដី (dəy, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

• IPA^(key): /tɛh/

teh

1. earth, ground
2. dirt

• te

• IPA^(key): /teʔ/

teh

1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

• tehhuatl

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/ [ˈt̪ɛ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: teh

tèh (plural teh-teh)

1. tea (plant; Camellia sinensis)

   Synonym: tanaman teh

2. tea (drink made thereof)

• “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪e]

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• (Baku, Northern Peninsular Malay) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/ [ˈt̪ɛ]

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• Rhymes: -eh
• Hyphenation: teh

From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

teh (Jawi spelling تيه)

1. Tea:

   Synonym: ca

   1. The tea plant; Camelia sinensis.

      Synonym: pokok teh

   2. The leaves of a tea plant.

      Synonym: daun teh

   3. The tea drink.

      Synonym: air teh

• > Indonesian: teh (inherited)

Clipping of putih.

teh

1. (Perak) A title of address for the sixth child in a family.
2. (Pahang) A title of address for the fourth child in a family.

• “teh” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɛ̀(h)]
• Hyphenation: teh

teh (stem -teh-)

1. (in compounds) bed of water

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: teh

teh (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ) (colloquial)

1. alternative spelling of te