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From tea + cup.
teacup (plural teacups)
- A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:"There isn't wind enough to capsize a tea-cup in a gutter," said Rasmus, and shifted his chew of tobacco with a little black chalk pipe, while he looked around him on all sides.
- A unit of measure; a teacupful.
cup for drinking tea
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܸܢܓܵܢܵܐ m (pingānā)
- Belarusian: філіжанка f (filižanka)
- Bulgarian: чаена чаша f (čaena čaša)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 茶杯 (caa4 bui1)
- Mandarin: 茶碗 (zh) (cháwǎn), 茶杯 (zh) (chábēi)
- Chuvash: чей курки (čej k̬urk̬i)
- Danish: tekop c
- Dutch: theekopje (nl) n
- Estonian: teetass (et)
- Finnish: teekuppi (fi)
- French: tasse à thé (fr) f
- German: Teetasse (de) f
- Greek: φλιτζάνι τσαγιού n (flitzáni tsagioú)
- Indonesian: cawan (id)
- Irish: cupán tae m, taechupán m
- Japanese: 茶碗 (ja) (ちゃわん, chawan), 湯呑み (ja), 湯飲み (ja) (yunomi)
- Korean: 찻잔 (ko) (chatjan)
- Macedonian: чајна шолја f (čajna šolja), шолја за чај f (šolja za čaj)
- Malay: cawan (ms)
- Maori: tīkapu, kaputī
- Mongolian: цайны аяга (cajny ajaga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tekopp m
- Nynorsk: tekopp m
- Pennsylvania German: Koppche n
- Polish: filiżanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: xícara (pt) f, chávena (pt) f
- Romanian: ceașcă (ro) f
- Russian: ча́йная ча́шка f (čájnaja čáška), ча́шка (ru) f (čáška)
- Swedish: tekopp (sv)
- Tibetan: ཇ་དཀར (ja dkar)
- Turkish: çay bardağı (tr), çay fincanı (tr)
- Vietnamese: chén uống trà
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teacup (not comparable)
- Of an animal, smaller than average.