tepe

See also: Tepe, tepë, tepe̱', tępe, and təpə

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish tepe.

Noun

tepe (plural tepes)

1. (archaeology) hill, tell

Anagrams

• PETE, Peet, Pete, pete, teep

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

tepe

1. mountain

Latin

Verb

tepē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

Olo

Noun

tepe

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

tepe

1. mountain.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tepe (Cyrillic spelling тепе)

1. third-person singular present of tepsti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtepe/ [ˈt̪e.pe]
• Rhymes: -epe
• Syllabification: te‧pe

Noun

tepe m (plural tepes)

1. piece of sod

Further reading

• “tepe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English tape.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

tepe (n class, plural tepe)

1. braid, tape

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تپه (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Proto-Turkic *tepe (“hill, top; top of head”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇 (töpü, “height”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid [script needed] (töpü, “summit of a mountain, hill, crown of a head”), Yakut төбө (töbö, “top, summit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈpɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: te‧pe

Noun

tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)

1. hill
2. top, peak
3. apex, vertex
4. crest, crown

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tepe
Definite accusative	tepeyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tepe	tepeler
Definite accusative	tepeyi	tepeleri
Dative	tepeye	tepelere
Locative	tepede	tepelerde
Ablative	tepeden	tepelerden
Genitive	tepenin	tepelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular tepem tepelerim 2nd singular tepen tepelerin 3rd singular tepesi tepeleri 1st plural tepemiz tepelerimiz 2nd plural tepeniz tepeleriniz 3rd plural tepeleri tepeleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular tepemi tepelerimi 2nd singular tepeni tepelerini 3rd singular tepesini tepelerini 1st plural tepemizi tepelerimizi 2nd plural tepenizi tepelerinizi 3rd plural tepelerini tepelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular tepeme tepelerime 2nd singular tepene tepelerine 3rd singular tepesine tepelerine 1st plural tepemize tepelerimize 2nd plural tepenize tepelerinize 3rd plural tepelerine tepelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular tepemde tepelerimde 2nd singular tepende tepelerinde 3rd singular tepesinde tepelerinde 1st plural tepemizde tepelerimizde 2nd plural tepenizde tepelerinizde 3rd plural tepelerinde tepelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular tepemden tepelerimden 2nd singular tependen tepelerinden 3rd singular tepesinden tepelerinden 1st plural tepemizden tepelerimizden 2nd plural tepenizden tepelerinizden 3rd plural tepelerinden tepelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular tepemin tepelerimin 2nd singular tepenin tepelerinin 3rd singular tepesinin tepelerinin 1st plural tepemizin tepelerimizin 2nd plural tepenizin tepelerinizin 3rd plural tepelerinin tepelerinin
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular tepeyim tepelerim 2nd singular tepesin tepelersin 3rd singular tepe tepedir tepeler tepelerdir 1st plural tepeyiz tepeleriz 2nd plural tepesiniz tepelersiniz 3rd plural tepeler tepelerdir

Related terms

• tepeli
• tepesiz
• tepelik

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “töpü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436