تپسی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • دپسی (depsi)

Etymology

Derived from Middle Chinese 疊子 (dep tsiX, “small dish; plate”). Cognate with Azerbaijani təpsi, Karakhanid تَڤْسٖی (tewsi) and Old Uyghur 𐾀𐽶𐽼𐽻𐽶 (typsy /⁠tépsé⁠/).

Noun

تپسی • (tepsi)

  1. tray, waiter, salver, a flat and rigid object upon which things are carried
    Synonym: سینی (sini)

Derived terms

  • تپسی چیقارمق (tepsi çıkarmak, “to bring out the tray”)
  • تپسیجی (tepsici, “maker or seller of trays”)
  • فنجان تپسیسی (fincan tepsisi, “saucer”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tepsi
  • → Albanian: tepsi
  • → Algerian Arabic: طبسي (“plate”)
  • → Armenian: թեփսի (tʻepʻsi)
  • → Bulgarian: тепси́я (tepsíja)
  • → Egyptian Arabic: طُبسيّة (“plate”)
  • → Georgian: თეფში (tepši), თევში (tevši) — dialectal or nonstandard
  • → Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
  • → Hijazi Arabic: تبسي (“tray, bowl”)
  • → Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia (regional)
  • → Ladino: tefsin, tifsin, tepsi
  • → Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
  • → Moroccan Arabic: طبسيل (ṭabsīl, “plate”)
  • → North Levantine Arabic: تبسيّة (“ashtray”)
  • → Romanian: tipsie (“tray”)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐпсија
    Latin script: tèpsija

Further reading

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