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Webster 1913 Edition

Teaspoon

Tea′spoonˊ

(tē′spoōnˊ)

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Noun.

1.

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Definition 2024

teaspoon

teaspoon

English

Noun

teaspoon ‎(plural teaspoons)

A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.
A unit of measure, worth one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.

Synonyms

(unit of measure): tsp (abbreviation); (apothecaries' notation) f℥j

Translations

small spoon

Afrikaans: teelepel
Chinese:

Cantonese: 茶匙 ‎(caa⁴ ci⁴), 茶羹 ‎(caa⁴ gang¹)

Mandarin: 茶匙 (zh) ‎(cháchí)
Czech: čajová lžička f
Dutch: theelepeltje (nl) n, theelepel (nl) m, koffielepel (nl) m (maybe only used in Belgium)
Estonian: teelusikas
Finnish: teelusikka (fi)
French: cuillère à café (fr) f
Galician: culleriña (gl) f
Georgian:
German: Teelöffel (de) m
Greek: κουταλάκι του γλυκού n ‎(koutaláki tou glykoú)
Hebrew: כפית (he) f ‎(kapit)
Irish: spúnóg bheag f
Italian: cucchiaino da tè m
Japanese: ティースプーン ‎(tīsupūn)
Norman: tchulyi à thée f
Korean: 찻숱가락 ‎(chatsutgarak)
Lithuanian: šaukštelis m, arbatinis šaukštelis m
Macedonian: лажичка f ‎(lážička)

Maltese: kuċċarina f
Maori: tīpūnu
Norwegian:

Bokmål: teskje (no) m, f, teskei m, f

Nynorsk: teskei f
Polish: łyżeczka (pl) f, łyżeczka do herbaty (pl) 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

unit of measure

Dutch: theelepel (nl) m
Finnish: teelusikallinen
French: cuillère à café (fr) f
Galician: culleradiña (gl) f
German: Teelöffel (de) m
Greek: κουταλάκι του γλυκού n ‎(koutaláki tou glykoú)
Japanese: 小さじ ‎(kosaji)
Macedonian: кафена лажичка f ‎(káfena lážička)
Maori: tīpūnu
Norwegian:

Bokmål: teskje (no) m, f, teskei m, f

Nynorsk: teskei f

Polish: łyżeczka (pl) f
Portuguese: colher de chá (pt)
Russian: ча́йная ло́жка f ‎(čájnaja lóžka)
Scottish Gaelic: spàin-teatha f
Spanish: cucharada de té f, cucharadita (es) f
Swahili: kijiko cha chai
Swedish: teskedsmått (sv)
Tagalog: kutsarita
Thai: ช้อนชา ‎(cháwnchaa)
Turkish: çay kaşığı
Waray-Waray: kutsarita

See also