топ

• IPA^(key): [tɔp]

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

топ • (top) m (diminutive то́пче)

1. (originally) cannonball, bullet (round projectile)

   Synonym: гюле́ (gjulé)

   → (by methonymic generalization) cannon

   хвърлям топа (idiom) ― hvǎrljam topa ― to kick the bucket (literally, “to shoot the cannonball”)

2. bundle, roll, pellet, round clump

   топ харти́я ― top hartíja ― bundle of paper

   топ плат ― top plat ― roll of fabric

   топ тесто́ ― top testó ― pellet of dough

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

• то́пам (tópam, “to bounce a ball”)
• то́пка (tópka, “ball”)
• топчи́я (topčíja, “artilleryman”)
• топхана́ (tophaná, “arsenal, armory warehouse”) (historical, obsolete)

• топу́з (topúz, “cudgel, mace”) (historical, dialectal)

• “топ”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “топ”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “*топъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 347
• Krǎsteva, Vesela (2003) “топ”, in Тълковен речник на турцизмите в българския език [Explanatory Dictionary of Turkisms in the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Skorpio vi, page 200

Calque of Persian رخ (rox, “battle tower”).

топ • (top) m

1. (chess) rook

   Synonym: тур (tur)

Borrowed from English top.

топ • (top) (indeclinable)

1. top, excellent, superb

   топ диви́зия ― top divízija ― highest division

   топ секре́тен ― top sekréten ― top secret

• тип-топ (tip-top, “tip-top”)

• пот (pot), топ- (top-)

From Turkic, compare Azerbaijani top.

топ • (top)

1. gun
2. rifle

• IPA^(key): [top]

топ • (top)

1. team, group, cluster

• (group): жиын (jiyn), лек (lek), сап (sap), тобыр (tobyr), топыр (topyr), шоғыр (şoğyr)

• топтау (toptau)
• топтама (toptama), топтамалау (toptamalau)
• топты (topty)
• топтық (toptyq)
• топшы (topşy)

• IPA^(key): [top]

топ • (top) (Arabic spelling توپ)

1. ball
2. group, team, cluster

• топтоо (toptoo)
• топтомо (toptomo)
• топтуу (toptuu)
• топтук (toptuk)
• топчу (topcu)

• IPA^(key): [tɔp]

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top).

топ • (top) m (relational adjective топовски)

1. cannon

Borrowed from English top.

топ • (top) (indeclinable, not comparable)

1. topnotch, great, awesome

топ • (top) (not comparable)

1. in a topnotch, great, awesome way

• IPA^(key): [top]

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

топ • (top) m 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)

Onomatopoeic.

топ • (top)

1. stamp (sound of stamping when walking)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top).

• IPA^(key): /tôp/

то̏п m inan (Latin spelling tȍp)

1. cannon
2. (chess) rook

From Proto-Turkic *top.

топ • (top)

1. (archaic) round thing

• тобук (tobuk), томук (tomuk)

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