tope

• (General American) IPA^(key): /toʊp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təʊp/

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• Rhymes: -əʊp
• Homophone: taupe

Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.

• toper

tope (plural topes)

1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

From Tamil.

tope (plural topes)

1. (India) A grove of trees.
   • 1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love

     Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number.

   • 2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India:

     In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.

Probably from Pali thūpa. Doublet of stupa.

tope (plural topes)

1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

Borrowed from Hindi तोप (top), which in turn is borrowed from Classical Persian توپ (tōp). Ultimately loaned from a Turkic word, which is derived from Proto-Turkic *top. Compare Turkish top.

tope (plural topes)

1. (India, obsolete) A cannon (weapon).
   • 1857, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, page 269:

     They found him strongly posted near the fortress of Deeg, in the midst of bogs, tanks, and topes, and formidably defended by artillery.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tope”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• Pote, poet, pote, poët

tope

1. inflection of topar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tope

1. meat

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pe/
• Rhymes: -ɔpe
• Hyphenation: tò‧pe

tope f pl

1. plural of topa

• peto, pote, poté

tope

1. alternative form of top

• Hyphenation: to‧pe

Deverbal from topar.

tope m (plural topes)

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tope

1. inflection of topar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tope (Cyrillic spelling топе)

1. third-person plural present of topiti

• IPA^(key): /ˈtope/ [ˈt̪o.pe]
• Rhymes: -ope
• Syllabification: to‧pe

Deverbal from topar.

tope m (plural topes)

1. butt, end, butt end
2. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
3. collision
4. quarrel, fight
5. reinforcement
6. (railway) buffer, bumper
7. (nautical) masthead, lookout
8. (Mexico) speed bump

   Synonym: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) túmulo

9. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival

• borda f (Honduras)

From Old French top (“top, summit”), from Frankish *top; compare English top.

tope m (plural topes)

1. top, limit

tope

1. (colloquial, Spain) really

   Es tope feo

   He's dead ugly

tope

1. inflection of topar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “tope”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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tope class V (plural matope class VI)

1. mud

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

1. vole
2. shrew

• tolpe

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.pe/

tope

1. (modal, auxiliary) to want to (do something)

   Synonym: seba

   de tope tefiam ― I want to eat

2. (modal, auxiliary) to intend to (do something)

   Synonym: seba

This term does not appear to be conjugated.

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics