تپسی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دپسی (tepsi)
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 疊子 (MC dep̚ t͡sɨX, “small dish; plate”), already attested in Turkic from the 8th century.
Noun
تپسی • (tepsi)
- tray
Descendants
- Turkish: tepsi
- → Albanian: tepsi
- → Armenian: թեփսի (tʿepʿsi)
- → Bulgarian: тепси́я (tepsíja)
- → Georgian: თეფში (tepši)
- → Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
- → Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia
- → Ladino: tefsin, tifsin
- → Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: тѐпсија / tèpsija
- → Egyptian Arabic: طُبسيّة (“plate”)
- → North Levantine Arabic: تبسيّة (“ashtray”)
- → Hijazi Arabic: تبسي (“tray, bowl”)
- → Algerian Arabic: طبسي (“plate”)
- → Moroccan Arabic: طبسيل (“plate”)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 445b
- 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, Vienna, column 1059
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دپسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2024