# tipi
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈtiːpi/
* Rhymes: -iːpi
* Homophone: teepee

### Noun

tipi (plural tipis)
* Alternative form of teepee

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* PITI, piti

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈti.pi]

### Noun

tipi m (plural tipis)
* teepee

### Further reading

* “tipi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Cebuano
### Verb

tipi
* to kill; to rub out

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English teepee, from the Lakota thípi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtipi]
* Hyphenation: ti‧pi

### Noun

tipi (uncountable)
* teepee.

### Further reading

* “tipi” 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.

## Italian
### Noun

tipi m
* plural of tipo

## Latvian
### Noun

tipi m
* nominative/vocative plural of tips

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *tipi (compare with Rarotongan tipi, Tahitian tipi and Samoan tipi) from Proto-Oceanic *tipi (compare with Fijian cibi) likely related to *supi (“to shave” – compare with Tongan hifi, Fijian civi).

### Verb

tipi (passive tipia)
* to slice, to cut into slices
* to pare off, to plane, to smoothen wood

### Derived terms

* tītipi

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 515
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tipi.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 254

### Etymology 2

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

### Verb

tipi
* to skim or glide along the surface
    Synonyms: ripi, riripi, ripiripi
* to move quickly or smooothly

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tipi, tītipi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 494
* “tipi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

### Noun

tipi m (definite singular tipien, indefinite plural tipier, definite plural tipiene)
* a teepee

### References

* “tipi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “tipi” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

### Noun

tipi m (definite singular tipien, indefinite plural tipiar, definite plural tipiane)
* a teepee

### References

* “tipi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈti.pi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ipi
* Syllabification: ti‧pi

### Noun

tipi n (indeclinable)
* teepee, tipi

### Further reading

* tipi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Quechua
### Noun

tipi
* shucking of maize
* (weaving) fiber

#### Usage notes

Not to be confused with t'ipi.

#### See also

* tipiy

## Romanian
### Noun

tipi m pl
* plural of tip

## Spanish
### Noun

tipi m (plural tipis)
* teepee
* a typographical error

### Further reading

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

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tipi. Cognates include Hawaiian kipi (“to dig”) and Samoan tipi (“axe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈti.pi]
* Hyphenation: ti‧pi

### Noun

tipi
* cut, incision
* cutter (object that cuts)

### Verb

tipi (plural tatipi)
* (transitive) to cut
* (transitive) to slice
* (transitive) to reduce
* (intransitive) to be cut off
* (intransitive) to be amputated
* (intransitive) to be circumcised
* (intransitive) to be operated on

#### Derived terms

* tipiga
* tīpiga

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 386

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish تپی (tipi), from Proto-Turkic *tüpi.

#### Noun

tipi (definite accusative tipiyi, plural tipiler)
* blizzard

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tipi
* definite accusative singular of tip

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tüpi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill