تپسی

Ottoman Turkish

تپسی

Alternative forms

• دپسی (depsi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tevsi (“dish, plate”), a word that is already attested in Turkic from the 8^th century, itself from Middle Chinese 疊子 (dep̚ t͡sɨ^X, “small dish; plate”). Cognate with Azerbaijani təpsi and Karakhanid تَڤْسٖی (tewsi).

Noun

تپسی • (tepsi)

1. tray, waiter, salver, a flat and rigid object upon which things are carried

   Synonym: سینی (sini)

Derived terms

• تپسی چیقارمق (tepsi çıkarmak, “to bring out the tray”)
• تپسیجی (tepsici, “maker or seller of trays”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tepsi
• → Albanian: tepsi
• → Algerian Arabic: طبسي (“plate”)
• → Armenian: թեփսի (tʻepʻsi)
• → Bulgarian: тепси́я (tepsíja)
• → Egyptian Arabic: طُبسيّة (“plate”)
• → Georgian: თეფში (tepši), თევში (tevši) — dialectal or nonstandard
  • → Bats: თეფშ (tepš)
• → Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
• → Hijazi Arabic: تبسي (“tray, bowl”)
• → Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia (regional)
• → Ladino: tefsin, tifsin
• → Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
• → Moroccan Arabic: طبسيل (ṭabsīl, “plate”)
• → North Levantine Arabic: تبسيّة (“ashtray”)
• → Romanian: tipsie (“tray”)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тѐпсија

  Latin script: tèpsija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tepsi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4744
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 445b
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تپسی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 145a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Orbis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1218
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تبسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1059
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tepsi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تپسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 491