means A small handled cup, usually ceramic, made for drinking tea and typically resting on a matching saucer.

from A plain compound of "tea" plus "cup," assembled in English once tea-drinking took hold as a fashionable habit. "Tea" itself arrived by sea: the Min Chinese word "te" (tê) traveled west with Dutch traders, which is why much of Europe says some version of "tea/thee/tee," while overland routes from Mandarin "chá" gave Russian, Arabic, and Hindi their "cha" words. "Cup" is far older homegrown stock, from Old English "cuppe," itself drawn from Late Latin "cuppa," a drinking vessel. So the word is two trade routes meeting on one shelf — an ancient Latin bowl finally filled with a leaf from China.