tepe

See also: Tepe, tepë, tepe̱', tępe, and təpə

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish tepe.

Noun

tepe (plural tepes)

1. (archaeology) hill, tell

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^(key): /ˈtepe/
• Rhymes: -epe
• Hyphenation: té‧pe

Noun

tepe f (plural tepe, definite tepja, definite plural tepet) (colloquial)

1. hillock, small hill, mound

   Synonyms: kodrinë, sukë

2. top of the head, pate, crown, cranium

   Synonyms: çaçkë, rrashtë, tepelek

Declension

Declension of tepe

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tepe	tepa	tepe	tepet
accusative		tepen
dative	tepe	tepes	tepeve	tepeve
ablative			tepesh

Related terms

• tepelek

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 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

1. mountain

Latin

Verb

tepē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

Māori

Etymology

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

Verb

tepe

1. to congeal, to coagulate

Noun

tepe

1. clot

Adjective

tepe

1. clumpy, clotted (of milk)

   waiū tepe: yogurt

Derived terms

• whakatepe (“to set, to firm”)
• waiū tepe (“yogurt”)

Related terms

• tetepe
• tepetepe

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “tepe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 482
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “tepe”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[2], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Olo

Noun

tepe

1. 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

1. mountain

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tepe (Cyrillic spelling тепе)

1. third-person singular present of tepsti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtepe/ [ˈt̪e.pe]
• Rhymes: -epe
• Syllabification: te‧pe

Noun

tepe m (plural tepes)

1. piece of sod

Further reading

• “tepe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English tape.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

tepe class IX (plural tepe class X)

1. braid, tape

Turkish

tepe

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تپه (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Old Anatolian Turkish دَپَه (depe), تَپَه (tepe), 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^(key): /teˈpe/
• Hyphenation: te‧pe

Noun

tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)

1. hill
2. top, peak
3. apex, vertex
4. crest, crown

Declension

Declension of tepe

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

• bir tepe yıkılır, bir dere dolar
• dere tepe düz gitmek
• dereden tepeden konuşmak
• doğru söyleyenin tepesi delik olur
• dumanı tepesinden çıkmak
• tepe açısı
• tepe aşığı
• tepe camı
• tepe lambası
• tepe tomurcuğu
• tepebaşı
• tepecik
• tepeden ayağı
• tepeden bakmak
• tepeden inme
• tepeden tırnağa
• tepegöz
• tepelemek
• tepeli
• tepelik
• tepemsi
• tepesi atmak
• tepesinde bitmek
• tepesinde değirmen çevirmek
• tepesinde havan dövmek
• tepesinden kaynar sular dökülmek
• tepesine binmek
• tepesine çıkmak
• tepesinin tası atmak
• tepesiz
• tepetakla
• tepeüstü, tepe üstü

Proper nouns

• Aktepe
• Aydıntepe
• Boztepe
• Gürgentepe
• Karatepe
• Kavaktepe
• Kuştepe
• Maltepe
• Sancaktepe
• Savaştepe
• Tepebaşı

Further reading

• “tepe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tepe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “tepe”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı