ocha

From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha.

ocha (uncountable)

1. Japanese tea, usually green tea.
   • 2001, Franz Wiegand, chapter VI, in Tokyo Blues: Shikata Ga Nai! (It Can’t Be Helped!), Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 63:

     Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes.

   • 2008 December, Ashim Shanker, chapter II, in Don’t Forget to Breathe (Migrations; 1), 2nd edition, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 10:

     In the winters, they would sit together in the tiny attic space that the old man had been occupying in the house for the past 25 years and drink hot ocha as Rakesh-7 wove together seemingly simple threads into complex and detailed narrations […]

   • 2017 April 6, John Hunter Parker, “Adventures in The Land of The Rising Sun”, in The Colored Boys: Inspired by True Events, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

     Before each she quickly dispatched a bowl of miso soup, a small but steaming cup of ocha (green tea), some sushimi (raw fish), sukiyaki, boiled rice, octopus, udon noodles and some eel and sushi.

   • 2023, Erin Masako Wilkins, “Tea (Ocha)”, in Asian American Herbalism: Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness—[…], New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Living in Harmony and Maintaining Health), page 289, column 2:

     Good quality tea can be steeped up to five times as the flavor evolves and becomes more subtle with each steep. In this way, we honor the tea plant and the labor of the many hands that create a single cup of ocha.

ocha

1. Rōmaji transcription of おちゃ

• auca (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• oca (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Vulgar Latin auca, contraction of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”).

ocha f (plural ochas)

1. (Puter, Vallader) goose

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.xa/
• Rhymes: -ɔxa
• Syllabification: o‧cha

ocha

1. ach!

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “ǻu̯χă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 8