tepe

Borrowed from Turkish tepe.^[1]

tepe (plural tepes)

1. (archaeology) hill, tell

• pete, Pete, Peet, peet, teep, PETE

From Ottoman Turkish تپه (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Proto-Turkic *tepe (“hill, top; top of head”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtepe/
• Rhymes: -epe
• Hyphenation: té‧pe

tepe f (plural tepe, definite tepja, definite plural tepet) (colloquial)

1. hillock, small hill, mound

   Synonyms: kodrinë, sukë

2. top of the head, pate, crown, cranium

   Synonyms: çaçkë, rrashtë, tepelek

• tepelek

• “tepe”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “tepe”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “tepe”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 513

tepe

1. mountain

tepē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

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tepe

1. to congeal, to coagulate

tepe

1. clot

• whakatepe (“to set, to firm”)

• tetepe
• tepetepe

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tepe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 482
• “tepe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

tepe

1. water

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

tepe

1. mountain.

tepe (Cyrillic spelling тепе)

1. third-person singular present of tepsti

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

tepe m (plural tepes)

1. piece of sod

• “tepe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from English tape.

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tepe class IX (plural tepe class X)

1. braid, tape

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 (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid (töpü, “summit of a mountain, hill, crown of a head”), Yakut төбө (töbö, “top, summit”).

• IPA^(key): /teˈpɛ/

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• Hyphenation: te‧pe

tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)

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

• tepeli
• tepesiz
• tepelik

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