topu topu
Turkish
Etymology
Reduplication of topu, from top (“anything rounded up, balled up; whole, complete; ball”) + -u (possessive suffix), literally “all of it”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toˈpu.to.pu/
- Hyphenation: to‧pu‧to‧pu
Adverb
- Generally to indicate the thing in question is little in amount; in total, in all, all in all
- approximately, more or less
Related terms
Further reading
- “topu topu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topu topu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4864