tipu

tipu (plural tipus)

1. A South American tree, Tipuana tipu, which is grown as an ornamental in mild-winter climates.
   • 2003 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 10, page 54:

     A tipu tree serves as an umbrella, while an Indonesian door on the wall carries the ethnic motif and an iron table and chairs keep it modern.

• Tupi, ptui, puit

From Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to poke”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/ [ˈt̪i.pu]
• Rhymes: -ipu
• Syllabification: ti‧pu

tipu m (plural tipos)

1. kind, type, sort, manner

   Synonyms: mena, climen

• “tipu” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From Proto-Finnic *tipu, variant of *tipa, itself probably originally an interjection used to attract a hen or chicken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/, [ˈt̪ipu]
• Rhymes: -ipu
• Syllabification^(key): ti‧pu
• Hyphenation^(key): ti‧pu

tipu

1. chick, chicken (very young chick of hen, when still yellow with its natal down)
2. chick (young of bird)
3. any small bird
4. (colloquial) chick (attractive young woman)

• (chicken): kananpoika
• (bird's young): linnunpoika, linnunpoikanen
• (small bird): pikkulintu
• (attractive woman): kaunotar

• “tipu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipuˣ/, [ˈt̪ipu(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ipu
• Syllabification^(key): ti‧pu
• Hyphenation^(key): ti‧pu

tipu

1. inflection of tippua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• puit

Inherited from Malay tipu. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/ [ˈt̪i.pu]
• Rhymes: -ipu
• Syllabification: ti‧pu

tipu (active menipu, passive ditipu)

1. (transitive) to trick; to fool; to deceive (to cause to believe something untrue)

tipu (plural tipu-tipu)

1. trick (something that's used to fool or swindle)

• “tipu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *tipu. Cognates include Finnish tipu and Estonian tibu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/, [ˈtʲipu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/, [ˈtib̥u]
• Rhymes: -ipu
• Hyphenation: ti‧pu

tipu

1. chick (baby chicken)

• puippu

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 584

tipu m

1. inflection of tips:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

Borrowed from Malay tipu.

• Hyphenation: ti‧pu

tipu

1. deceptive or lying words to mislead people,

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipu/ [ˈt̪i.pu]
• Hyphenation: ti‧pu
• Rhymes: -ipu

tipu (Jawi spelling تيڤو)

1. to deceive; to scam; to trick

• tipuan
• menipu
• tertipu
• penipuan
• penipu

• > Indonesian: tipu (inherited)
• → Maguindanao: tipu

• “tipu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• tupo

From Proto-Polynesian *tupu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq (compare Malay tumbuh).

tipu (passive tipuria)

1. (Eastern dialect) alternative form of tupu (“to grow”)

• “tipu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• tipuka

tipu n

1. lead (metal)
2. tin
3. tin plate