From tea + kettle.
teakettle (plural teakettles)
- (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:“Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”
a vessel for boiling water for tea
- Afrikaans: ketel
- Albanian: çajnik (sq), ibrik (sq) m
- Arabic: غَلَّايَة f (ḡallāya)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦܬܵܦܵܐ f (aptāpā), ܟ̰ܵܝܕܵܢ f (čāydān)
- Armenian: թեյաման (hy) (tʻeyaman)
- Azerbaijani: çaydan, çaynik
- Bashkir: сәйнүк (səynük)
- Belarusian: ча́йнік m (čájnik), гарба́тнік m (harbátnik)
- Bengali: কেটলি (bn) (keṭli)
- Bulgarian: ча́йник (bg) m (čájnik)
- Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (my) (re-nwe:ui:)
- Catalan: bullidor m, tetera f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 水壺 / 水壶 (seoi2 wu4-2)
- Mandarin: 水壺 / 水壶 (zh) (shuǐhú), 壺 / 壶 (zh) (hú)
- Crimean Tatar: çaynik
- Czech: konvice (cs) f
- Danish: vandkoger c
- Dutch: waterkoker (nl) m
- Estonian: teekann (et)
- Faroese: ketil m
- Finnish: teepannu (fi), vesipannu (fi)
- French: bouilloire (fr) m, bouilloire à thé (fr) m
- Georgian: ჩაიდანი (ka) (čaidani)
- German: Kessel (de) m, Teekessel (de) m
- Greek: βραστήρας (el) m (vrastíras)
- Hausa: sàhānī̀ m
- Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם (he) m (kumkum)
- Hindi: केतली (hi) f (ketlī)
- Hungarian: teáskanna (hu)
- Icelandic: ketill (is) m
- Italian: teiera (it) f, bollitore (it) m
- Japanese: 薬缶 (ja) (やかん, yakan), 湯わかし (ゆわかし, yuwakashi)
- Kazakh: шәйнек (kk) (şäinek)
- Khmer: កំសៀវ (km) (kɑmsiəw), ប៉ាន់តែ (pan tae)
- Korean: 주전자(酒煎子) (ko) (jujeonja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چاپەز (çapez)
- Kyrgyz: чайнек (ky) (caynek)
- Lao: ກາຕົ້ມນ້ຳ (kā tom nam), ໝໍ້ກາ (lo) (mǭ kā)
- Latvian: tējkanna f
- Lithuanian: arbatinukas m
- Macedonian: ча́јник m (čájnik), ко́тле n (kótle)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: данх (mn) (danx)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannkoker m
- Old Frisian: sthitil
- Persian:
- Dari: چایجوش (čây-jôš)
- Iranian Persian: کِتْری (ketri)
- Polish: czajnik (pl) m, imbryk (pl) m, sagan (pl) m (regional)
- Portuguese: chaleira (pt) f
- Romanian: ceainic (ro) n, ibric (ro) n
- Russian: ча́йник (ru) m (čájnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: coire m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ча̑јнӣк m
- Roman: čȃjnīk (sh) m
- Slovak: čajník (sk) m, čajová kanvica f
- Slovene: čajnik m
- Sotho: ketlele
- Spanish: tetera (es) f
- Swedish: vattenkokare (sv) c
- Tagalog: takuri
- Tajik: чойник (tg) (čoynik)
- Tatar: чәйнек (tt) (çäynek)
- Thai: กาน้ำ (th) (gaa-náam), กา (th) (gaa), กาต้มน้ำ
- Turkish: çaydanlık (tr)
- Turkmen: çäýnek
- Ukrainian: ча́йник m (čájnyk)
- Urdu: کیتْلی f (ketlī)
- Uyghur: چەينەك (cheynek)
- Uzbek: choydish (uz), qumg'on (uz), choynak (uz)
- Vietnamese: ấm đun nước
- Volapük: tiedaskal (vo)
- Welsh: tegell m
- West Frisian: tsjettel
- Yiddish: טשײַניק m (tshaynik)
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teakettle (third-person singular simple present teakettles, present participle teakettling, simple past and past participle teakettled)
- (intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 46:The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
2011, Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause:They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.
