"Chai"

Translation: Tea

[AnUnicorn]

If this was an import from Arabic شاي, I'm surprised it reacquired the beginning /ch/ instead of the Arabic /sh/...

[John00625]

According to Wikitionary its from Hindi

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chai#Swahili

[syntyche1981]

This makes sense as both regions make a spiced tea we know in English by that term.

[shirine24091]

Even Ugandans call it chai

[ronniesseb]

Ugandans represent