టపా

Telugu

Alternative forms

• టపాలు (ṭapālu), టప్పా (ṭappā), తపాలా (tapālā)

Etymology

Of obscure origin. C.P. Brown considers the word as borrowed from French étape (“stage, stop”), while Wilson assigns it a native Dravidian origin. Beames and Platts, on the other hand, consider the word to be borrowed from Indo-Aryan *टप्पाल (ṭapāl, “post office, i.e. place where letters are stamped”), from the root underlying टापना (ṭāpnā, “to stamp, pound one's feet”) + आलय (ālay, “place, dwelling”), lit. a "stamping-house".

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʈapaː/

Noun

టపా • (ṭapā) ? (plural టపాలు)

1. The post or mail, the tappal

References

• "టపా" in J. P. L. Gwynn (1991) A Telugu-English dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 214
• "టపా" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 488
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tappaul”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 901.

Anagrams

• పాట (pāṭa)