tepe

Borrowed from Turkish tepe.[1]

tepe (plural tepes)

1. (archaeology) hill, tell

• PETE, Peet, Pete, pete, teep

tepe

1. mountain

tepē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

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/ [ˈt̪e.pe]
• Rhymes: -epe
• Syllabification: te‧pe

tepe m (plural tepes)

1. piece of sod

• “tepe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English tape.

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tepe (n class, plural tepe)

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 [script needed] (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid [script needed] (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