تپسی

Ottoman Turkish

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tevsi (“dish, plate”), a word that is already attested in Turkic from the 8^th century, itself from Middle Chinese 疊子 (dep̚ t͡sɨ^X, “small dish; plate”). Cognate with Azerbaijani təpsi and Karakhanid تَڤْسٖی (tewsi).

تپسی • (tepsi)

tray, waiter, salver, a flat and rigid object upon which things are carried
Synonym: سینی (sini)

Turkish: tepsi
→ Albanian: tepsi
→ Algerian Arabic: طبسي (“plate”)
→ Armenian: թեփսի (tʻepʻsi)
→ Bulgarian: тепси́я (tepsíja)
→ Egyptian Arabic: طُبسيّة (“plate”)
→ Georgian: თეფში (tepši), თევში (tevši) — dialectal or nonstandard
- → Bats: თეფშ (tepš)
→ Greek: ταψί (tapsí)
→ Hijazi Arabic: تبسي (“tray, bowl”)
→ Hungarian: tepsi, tepszi, tepszia (regional)
→ Ladino: tefsin, tifsin, tepsi
→ Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija)
→ Moroccan Arabic: طبسيل (ṭabsīl, “plate”)
→ North Levantine Arabic: تبسيّة (“ashtray”)
→ Romanian: tipsie (“tray”)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: тѐпсија

Latin script: tèpsija

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tepsi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4744
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 445b
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تپسی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 145a
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Orbis”, 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 1218
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^[3], Vienna, column 1059
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tepsi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تپسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 491