# tepe
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish tepe.

### Noun

tepe (plural tepes)
* (archaeology) hill, tell

### References

* ↑ “tepe”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Anagrams

* pete, Pete, Peet, peet, teep, PETE

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تپه (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Proto-Turkic *tepe (“hill, top; top of head”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtepe/
* Rhymes: -epe
* Hyphenation: té‧pe

### Noun

tepe f (plural tepe, definite tepja, definite plural tepet) (colloquial)
* hillock, small hill, mound
    Synonyms: kodrinë, sukë
* top of the head, pate, crown, cranium
    Synonyms: çaçkë, rrashtë, tepelek

#### Related terms

* tepelek

### References

* ↑ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “tepe”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 474

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* “tepe”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* Mann, S. E. (1948) “tepe”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 513

## Coatepec Nahuatl
### Noun

tepe
* mountain

## Latin
### Verb

tepē
* second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

## Maori
### Etymology

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

### Verb

tepe
* to congeal, to coagulate

### Noun

tepe
* clot

### Derived terms

* whakatepe (“to set, to firm”)

### Related terms

* tetepe
* tepetepe

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tepe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 482
* “tepe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Olo
### Noun

tepe
* water

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Ometepec Nahuatl
### Noun

tepe
* mountain.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

tepe (Cyrillic spelling тепе)
* third-person singular present of tepsti

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtepe/ [ˈt̪e.pe]
* Rhymes: -epe
* Syllabification: te‧pe

### Noun

tepe m (plural tepes)
* piece of sod

### Further reading

* “tepe”, 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

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tape.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

tepe class IX (plural tepe class X)
* braid, tape

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تپه (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Old Anatolian Turkish دَپَه (däpä), تَپَه (täpä), from Proto-Turkic *tepe (“hill, top; top of head”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇 (töpü, “height”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid [script needed] (töpü, “summit of a mountain, hill, crown of a head”), Yakut төбө (töbö, “top, summit”), Azerbaijani təpə, Gagauz tepä.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /teˈpɛ/
* Hyphenation: te‧pe

### Noun

tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)
* hill
* top, peak
* apex, vertex
* crest, crown

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
tepe
tepeler
definite accusative
tepeyi
tepeleri
dative
tepeye
tepelere
locative
tepede
tepelerde
ablative
tepeden
tepelerden
genitive
tepenin
tepelerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
tepem
tepelerim
2nd singular
tepen
tepelerin
3rd singular
tepesi
tepeleri
1st plural
tepemiz
tepelerimiz
2nd plural
tepeniz
tepeleriniz
3rd plural
tepeleri
tepeleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
tepemi
tepelerimi
2nd singular
tepeni
tepelerini
3rd singular
tepesini
tepelerini
1st plural
tepemizi
tepelerimizi
2nd plural
tepenizi
tepelerinizi
3rd plural
tepelerini
tepelerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
tepeme
tepelerime
2nd singular
tepene
tepelerine
3rd singular
tepesine
tepelerine
1st plural
tepemize
tepelerimize
2nd plural
tepenize
tepelerinize
3rd plural
tepelerine
tepelerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
tepemde
tepelerimde
2nd singular
tepende
tepelerinde
3rd singular
tepesinde
tepelerinde
1st plural
tepemizde
tepelerimizde
2nd plural
tepenizde
tepelerinizde
3rd plural
tepelerinde
tepelerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
tepemden
tepelerimden
2nd singular
tependen
tepelerinden
3rd singular
tepesinden
tepelerinden
1st plural
tepemizden
tepelerimizden
2nd plural
tepenizden
tepelerinizden
3rd plural
tepelerinden
tepelerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
tepemin
tepelerimin
2nd singular
tepenin
tepelerinin
3rd singular
tepesinin
tepelerinin
1st plural
tepemizin
tepelerimizin
2nd plural
tepenizin
tepelerinizin
3rd plural
tepelerinin
tepelerinin
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
tepeyim
tepelerim
2nd singular
tepesin
tepelersin
3rd singular
tepe tepedir
tepeler tepelerdir
1st plural
tepeyiz
tepeleriz
2nd plural
tepesiniz
tepelersiniz
3rd plural
tepeler
tepelerdir :

#### Derived terms

* tepegöz
* tepeli
* tepelik
* tepesiz

### References

* Clauson, Gerard (1972) “töpü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436

### Further reading

* “tepe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu