تڤسی

Karakhanid

Etymology

Likely from Middle Chinese 疊子 (MC dep tsiX, “small dish; plate”). Cognate with Turkish tepsi, Azerbaijani təpsi.

Noun

تَڤْسٖی (tewsi)

1. tray

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 423
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 445b