different between charpoy vs teapoy

English

Alternative forms

• charpai
• charpaya

Etymology

From Hindi-Urdu ?????? (c?rp??) / ????????.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t???p??/

Noun

charpoy (plural charpoys)

1. (India) A traditional bedstead in India, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘To be Filed for Reference’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2004, p. 213:

     Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.

   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 54:

     There, every morning, tens of thousands of young men sit in the tea shops, reading the newspaper, or lie on a charpoy humming a tune, or sit in their rooms talking to a photo of a film actress.

See also

• teapoy

English

Alternative forms

• tepoy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?.p??/

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? / Urdu ?????? (tip?i, “teapoy”), which derives from a merger of Sanskrit ??????? (trip?da, “tripod”) and Classical Persian ?? ???? (sih-p?y, “tripod”). Corresponding ultimately to Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”) +? *p?ds (“foot”). Spelling influenced by pseudoetymological association with tea. 

Noun

teapoy (plural teapoys)

1. Originally, a three-legged decorative stand or table; sometimes also having a tea chest for holding a tea service. [from 1820s]
   • 2019, Nancy E. Davis, The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America:

     The teapoy, derived from the Hindi/Persian phrase denoting a three-footed table, supported a tea set or tea-related objects. Not all teapoys were tripod-like tables or sold singly. The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ????? (?ipai)

See also

• charpoy