топ

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Bulgarian

Топове (оръдие) край Паметника на Свободата на вр. Шипка

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top, ball, clump).

Noun

топ (topm (diminutive то́пче)

  1. (originally) cannonball, bullet (round projectile)
    Synonym: гюле́ (gjulé)
    (by methonymic generalization) cannon
  2. bundle, roll, pellet, round clump
    топ харти́яtop hartíjabundle of paper
    топ платtop platroll of fabric
    топ тесто́top testópellet of dough
Usage notes

In the modern language, the two meanings of the word are often interpreted as separate lemmas, but etymologically they share the same origin.

Declension
Derived terms
  • топу́з (topúz, cudgel, mace) (historical, dialectal)

References

Etymology 2

Calque of Persian رخ (rox, battle tower).

Noun

топ (topm

  1. (chess) rook
    Synonym: тур (tur)

See also

Chess pieces in Bulgarian · шахматни фигури (šahmatni figuri) (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
цар (car) царица (carica) топ (top) офицер (oficer) кон (kon) пешка (peška)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English top.

Adjective

топ (top) (indeclinable)

  1. top, excellent, superb
    топ диви́зияtop divízijahighest division
    топ секре́тенtop sekrétentop secret
Derived terms

Anagrams

Chechen

Etymology

From Turkic, compare Azerbaijani top.

Noun

топ (top)

  1. gun
  2. rifle

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic توپ
Cyrillic топ
Latin top
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Pronunciation

Noun

топ (top)

  1. team, group, cluster

Declension

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Derived terms

Kyrgyz

Pronunciation

Noun

топ (top) (Arabic spelling توپ)

  1. ball
  2. group, team, cluster

Declension

Derived terms

Macedonian

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top).

Noun

топ (topm (relational adjective топовски)

  1. cannon
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English top.

Adjective

топ (top) (indeclinable, not comparable)

  1. topnotch, great, awesome

Adverb

топ (top) (not comparable)

  1. in a topnotch, great, awesome way

Russian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch top, English top, or Low German Topp.

Noun

топ (topm inan (genitive то́па, nominative plural то́пы, genitive plural то́пов, diminutive то́пик)

  1. top (of the mast)
  2. cheese, note (pressed mass of tobacco in tobacco cutting machine)
Declension

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

топ (top)

  1. stamp (sound of stamping when walking)

Serbo-Croatian

то̏п

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top).

Pronunciation

Noun

то̏п m (Latin spelling tȍp)

  1. cannon
  2. (chess) rook

Declension

See also

Chess pieces in Serbo-Croatian · šahovske figure / шаховске фигуре (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
kralj
краљ
dama, kraljica
дама, краљица
top, kula
топ, кула
lovac, trkač, laufer
ловац, тркач, лауфер
skakač, konj
скакач, коњ
pješak, pešak, pion, pijun
пјешак, пешак, пион, пијун

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *top.

Noun

топ (top)

  1. (archaic) round thing

Derived terms

References

  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 489