تپه

See also: تته‎ and بته‎

Ottoman Turkish

تپه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tepü (“hill, top; top of head”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇‎ (t²üpü), Azerbaijani təpə, Bashkir түбә (tübä), Chuvash тӳпе (tüp̬e), Kazakh төбе (töbe), Kyrgyz дөбө (döbö), Turkmen depe, Tuvan тей (tey) and Uzbek tepa.

Noun

تپه • (tepe)

hill, an elevated landmass smaller than a mountain
Synonyms: بایر‎ (bayır), پشته‎ (puşte), تل‎ (tell), كوه‎ (küh)
(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
Synonyms: ذروه‎ (zirve), طوروق‎ (doruk), قله‎ (kulle), قمه‎ (kımme)

Derived terms

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

Turkish: tepe
- → English: tepe
→ Armenian: թեփե (tʿepʿe), թափա (tʿapʿa)
→ Bulgarian: тепе n (tepe)
→ Greek: τεπέ n (tepé)
- ⇒ Greek: τεπές m (tepés)
→ Persian: تپه‎ (tappe)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tepe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4739
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, 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, Vienna, column 1064
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tepe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تپه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 492

Persian

Alternative forms

تپّه (tappe) (with a shadda)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تپه‎ (modern Turkish tepe), from Proto-Turkic *tepü.

Pronunciation

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [tʰæpˈpʰe]

Synonyms

تنب‎ (tonb)
تبره‎ (tabare)

Noun

تپه • (tappe) (plural تپه‌ها‎ (tappe-hâ))

hill

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