# tp
## English
### Noun

tp
* Initialism of toilet paper.
* (telecommunications) Initialism of transponder.
    You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1 tp. 8.

### Verb

tp (third-person singular simple present tp's, present participle tp'ing, simple past and past participle tp'ed)
* To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

### Anagrams

* P.T., PT, p. t., p.t., pt, pt.

## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (reconstructed) IPA: /tap/ → /tap/ → /tap/ → /tap/
* (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA: /tap/
* (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA: /tap/
* (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA: /tap/
* (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA: /tap/
* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /tɛp/
** Conventional anglicization: tep

### Noun

m
* head
* individual person, (if possessed) servant
** c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 177–179: ꜥḥꜥ.n(.j) rdj.kw r šmsw sꜣḥ.kw m štj tpwThen I was appointed as a retainer and endowed with two hundred servants (literally, “heads”).

#### Usage notes

The reading of this word and related words (including the preposition below) has recently been contested. Werning and others have suggested that the traditional reading of tp is wrong, with the New Kingdom reading more likely being dp, and the original reading conceivably either dp or ḏp. However, other Egyptologists argue for the traditional reading, and indeed the bulk of the current evidence seems to point to the traditional value.

#### Derived terms

* ḥrj-tp
* ḥr tp
* ẖrj-tp-nswt
* gs-tp

### Preposition

* on top of, atop
* above

#### Alternative forms

tp :
often with personal pronouns :

#### Derived terms

* tpj
* tp ꜥ
* tp rmn
* tpt

### See also

* 𓁶

### References

* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89.
* ↑ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 100
* ↑ Werning, Daniel A. (2004) “The Sound Values of the Signs Gardiner D1 (Head) and T8 (Dagger)” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 12, pages 183–204
* ↑ Peust, Carsten (2006) “Nochmals zur Lesung der Kopf-Hieroglyphe” in Göttinger Miszellen, volume 208, pages 7–8
* ↑ Schweitzer, Simon D. (2011) “Zum Lautwert einiger Hieroglyphen” in Zeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 138, pages 132–149
* ↑ Werning, Daniel A. (2015) Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache, pages 34–35: “Die Einwände von (Schweitzer 2011) gegen die Lesung dp sind nicht stichhaltig (was an anderer Stelle zu zeigen ist). Neben den unzweifelhaften Schreibungen von ‘Kopf’ als im Amduat (Werning 2004: 196) ist noch folgender, kursivhieroglyphisch geschriebener Beleg hinzuzufügen: ‘Der ein „sakrales“ Haupt hat’ (Papyrus BM 9971).”
* ↑ Roberson, Joshua Aaron (2018) “Tête-à-tête: Some Observations and Counter-Arguments Regarding a Contentious Phonological Value, dp or tp” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 26, pages 185–202

## Indonesian
### Conjunction

tp
* (text messaging) Abbreviation of tapi.