teaspoon
tea + spoon
teaspoon (plural teaspoons)
- A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.
- A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.
small spoon
- Afrikaans: teelepel
- Bulgarian: чаена лъжичка f (čaena lǎžička)
- Catalan: cullereta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 茶匙 (caa4 ci4), 茶羹
- Mandarin: 茶匙 (zh) (cháchí)
- Czech: čajová lžička f
- Danish: teske c, teskefuld c
- Dutch: theelepeltje (nl) n, theelepel (nl) m, koffielepel (nl) m (mostly Belgium)
- Estonian: teelusikas
- Finnish: teelusikka (fi)
- French: cuillère à café (fr) f, petite cuillère (fr) f
- Galician: culleriña (gl) f
- Georgian: ჩაის კოვზი sg (čais ḳovzi), ჩაის კოვზები pl (čais ḳovzebi)
- German: Teelöffel (de) m
- Greek: κουταλάκι του γλυκού n (koutaláki tou glykoú)
- Hebrew: כפית (he) f (kapit)
- Hunsrik: Teeleffel m
- Irish: spúnóg bheag f, taespúnóg f
- Italian: cucchiaino da tè m
- Japanese: ティースプーン (ja) (tīsupūn)
- Korean: 찻숱가락 (chatsutgarak)
- Lao: ບ່ວງຊາ (būang sā)
- Lithuanian: šaukštelis m, arbatinis šaukštelis m
- Luxembourgish: Téiläffel m
- Macedonian: лажичка f (lažička)
- Maltese: kuċċarina f
- Maori: tīpūnu
- Norman: tchulyi à thée f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: teskje (no) m or f, teskei m or f
- Nynorsk: teskei f
- Plautdietsch: Teeläpel m
- Polish: łyżeczka (pl) f, łyżeczka do herbaty f
- Portuguese: colher de chá (pt)
- Romanian: linguriță (ro) f
- Russian: ча́йная ло́жка f (čájnaja lóžka), ло́жечка (ru) f (lóžečka)
- Scottish Gaelic: spàin-teatha f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кашичица f, лижица f, жличица f
- Roman: kašičica (sh) f, ližica f, žličica (sh) f
- Slovak: lyžička
- Sotho: kgabana
- Spanish: cucharilla (es) f
- Swahili: kijiko cha chai
- Swedish: tesked (sv)
- Tagalog: kutsarita
- Turkish: çay kaşığı
- Volapük: tiedaspun
- Waray-Waray: kutsarita
- White Hmong: rab diav kav fes
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teaspoon (third-person singular simple present teaspoons, present participle teaspooning, simple past and past participle teaspooned)
- To serve with a teaspoon
I teaspooned some sugar into my cup.