tê

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of tê – see 茶 (“tea; tea; etc.”).
(This character, tê, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 茶.)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eː

Verb

tê

  1. third-person singular present of hatin

Etymology 2

From Contraction of di wê.

Preposition

tê

  1. in it

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: tê

Noun

tê m (plural tês)

  1. tee (name of the Latin letter T, t)

Verb

tê

  1. Apocopic form of ter; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
  2. Eye dialect spelling of ter, representing Brazil Portuguese.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 痺／痹 (SV: tí).

Adjective

tê

  1. numb
    Ui da tê giò.
    Ouchie, my legs are numb.
Derived terms
Derived terms

Pronoun

tê

  1. (Central Vietnam) that; there; those
    Tui muốn cái tê.
    I want that one.
Synonyms
  • * (Northern Vietnam) đấy, (Southern Vietnam) đó

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French té.

Noun

tê

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
Synonyms

Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 犀.

Alternative forms

Noun

(classifier con) tê

  1. (obsolete) rhinoceros
    Synonym: tê giác
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