تپسی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دپسی (tepsi)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 疊子 (MC dep tsiX, “small dish; plate”), already attested in Turkic from the 8^th century.

Noun

تپسی • (tepsi)

1. tray

Descendants

• Turkish: tepsi
• → Albanian: tepsi
• → Armenian: թեփսի (tʻepʻsi)
• → Bulgarian: тепсѝя (tepsìja)
• → Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
• → Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia (regional)
• → Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: тѐпсија / tèpsija

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 445b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تبسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1059
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دپسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2024