tipi

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːpi/
• Rhymes: -iːpi
• Homophone: teepee

tipi (plural tipis)

1. Alternative form of teepee.

• PITI, piti

Borrowed from English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈti.pi]

tipi m (plural tipis)

1. teepee

• “tipi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

tipi

1. to kill; to rub out

From English teepee, from the Lakota thípi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtipi]
• Hyphenation: ti‧pi

tipi (plural tipi-tipi)

1. teepee

• “tipi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tipi m

1. plural of tipo

tipi m

1. nominative/vocative plural of tips

From Proto-Polynesian *tipi (compare with Rarotongan tipi, Tahitian tipi and Samoan tipi)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *tipi (compare with Fijian cibi)^[2] likely related to *supi (“to shave” – compare with Tongan hifi, Fijian civi).^[3]

tipi (passive tipia)

1. to slice, to cut into slices
2. to pare off, to plane, to smoothen wood

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

tipi

1. to skim or glide along the surface

   Synonyms: ripi, riripi, ripiripi

2. to move quickly or smooothly

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tipi, tītipi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 494
• “tipi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

tipi m (definite singular tipien, indefinite plural tipier, definite plural tipiene)

1. a teepee

• “tipi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tipi” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

tipi m (definite singular tipien, indefinite plural tipiar, definite plural tipiane)

1. a teepee

• “tipi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English teepee, from Lakota thípi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.pi/

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• Rhymes: -ipi
• Syllabification: ti‧pi

tipi n (indeclinable)

1. teepee, tipi

• tipi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

tipi

1. shucking of maize
2. (weaving) fiber

Not to be confused with t'ipi.

• tipiy

tipi m pl

1. plural of tip

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipi/ [ˈt̪i.pi]
• Rhymes: -ipi
• Syllabification: ti‧pi

tipi m or f (plural tipis)

1. teepee
2. a typographical error (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• “tipi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “tipi”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

From Proto-Polynesian *tipi. Cognates include Hawaiian kipi (“to dig”) and Samoan tipi (“axe”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.pi]
• Hyphenation: ti‧pi

tipi

1. cut, incision
2. cutter (object that cuts)

tipi (plural tatipi)

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to slice
3. (transitive) to reduce
4. (intransitive) to be cut off
5. (intransitive) to be amputated
6. (intransitive) to be circumcised
7. (intransitive) to be operated on

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 386

From Ottoman Turkish تپی (tipi), from Proto-Turkic *tüpi.^[1]

tipi (definite accusative tipiyi, plural tipiler)

1. blizzard

tipi

1. definite accusative singular of tip