تپه
Khalaj edit
Noun edit
تَپه (təpə) (definite accusative تَپەنی, plural تَپەلَر)
Declension edit
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tepe (“hill, top; top of head”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇 (t²üpü), Azerbaijani təpə, Bashkir түбә (tübə), Chuvash тӳпе (tüp̬e), Kazakh төбе (töbe), Kyrgyz дөбө (döbö), Turkmen depe, Tuvan тей (tey) and Uzbek tepa.
Noun edit
تپه • (tepe)
- hill, an elevated landmass smaller than a mountain
- (geography) peak, the top of a hill or mountain
- crown, the topmost part of the head
- Synonym: قمه (kımme)
- (in general) summit, top, apex, peak, vertex
Derived terms edit
- تپه جامی (tepe cami, “bull's eye”)
- تپه كمیكی (tepe kemiği, “skull”)
- تپه پنجرهسی (tepe penceresi, “skylight”)
- تپه گوز (tepe göz, “Atlantic stargazer”)
- تپهلتمك (tepeletmek, “to make or let be knocked on the head”)
- تپهلك (tepelik, “anything that serves as a summit”)
- تپهلمك (tepelemek, “to knock on the head”)
- تپهلندرمك (tepelendirmek, “to make or let become a peak”)
- تپهلنمك (tepelenmek, “to become formed into a peak”)
- تپهلو (tepeli, “crested”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: tepe
- → English: tepe
- → Armenian: թեփե (tʻepʻe), թափա (tʻapʻa)
- → Bulgarian: тепе n (tepe)
- → Greek: τεπέ n (tepé)
- ⇒ Greek: τεπές m (tepés)
- → Persian: تپه (tappe)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tepe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4739
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تپه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 146a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 342
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collis”, 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[3], Vienna, column 202
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تپه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1064
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tepe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تپه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 492
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- تپّه (tappe) (with a shadda)
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish تپه (modern Turkish tepe), from Proto-Turkic *tepe.
Pronunciation edit
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): [tʰæpˈpʰe]