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tea leaf

tea leaf noun: a dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea.

Noun

tea leaf (plural tea leaves)

  1. (in plural) A dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea.
  2. (Cockney, slang) A thief.

tea leaf meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

tea leaf in Hindi

leaf of the tea plant
चायपत्ती cāypattī

tea leaf in Tamil

டீ

tea leaf in Bengali

চোর

tea leaf in Telugu

leaf of the tea plant
తేయాకు tēyāku
More languagesFewer languages
tea leaf in Arabic
وَرَقَةْ اَلشَّاي waraqat aš-šāy, أَوْرَاق اَلشَّاي ʔawrāq aš-šāy
tea leaf in Thai
ใบชา bai-chaa
tea leaf in Myanmar
ရွက်ကြမ်း rwakkram:, လက်ဖက်ရွက် lakhpak-rwak

Forms of tea leaf

pluraltea leaves
alternative formtea-leaf
alternative formtealeaf

Words formed from tea leaf

Questions about tea leaf

What does tea leaf mean?
Tea leaf means a dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea.
What is tea leaf in Hindi?
Tea leaf in Hindi is चायपत्ती (cāypattī). See Tea leaf meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tea leaf?
Tea leaf is a noun.
What is the plural of tea leaf?
The plural of tea leaf is tea leaves.

Words near tea leaf in the dictionary

  1. tea kitchen
  2. tea kitchens
  3. tea ladies
  4. tea lady
  5. tea lead
  6. tea leaf
  7. tea leaf paradox
  8. tea leaves
  9. tea light
  10. tea lights
  11. tea loaf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea leaf (page history and authors); tea leaf (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tea leaf (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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