ocha

Definition

Japanese tea, usually green tea.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes."
• "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 […]"
• "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."