تورپو

Ottoman Turkish

تورپو

Alternative forms

• تورپی (törpü), دورپی (dörpi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *törpigü (“file, rasp”); cognate with Azerbaijani törpü and Kazakh түрпі (türpı).

Noun

تورپو • (törpü)

1. rasp, file, a hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting

   Synonyms: اگه (eğe), راسپه (raspa), سوهان (suhan), مبرد (mibred)

Derived terms

• تورپولتمك (törpületmek, “to make or let be rasped”)
• تورپولمك (törpülemek, “to rasp”)
• تورپولنمك (törpülenmek, “to be rasped”)

Descendants

• Turkish: törpü
• → Macedonian: турпија (turpija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ту̀рпија

  Latin script: tùrpija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “törpü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4891
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تورپو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 412
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lima”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 952
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دورپی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2161
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “törpü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تورپو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 607