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 8th century, itself from Middle Chinese 疊子 (dep̚ t͡sɨX, 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)
    • Bats: თეფშ (tepš)
  • Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
  • Hijazi Arabic: تبسي (tray, bowl)
  • Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia
  • Ladino: tefsin, tifsin
  • Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
  • Moroccan Arabic: طبسيل (ṭabsīl, plate)
  • North Levantine Arabic: تبسيّة (ashtray)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐпсија
    Latin script: tèpsija

Further reading

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