tp

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See also:tp.,.tp,andTP

English

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Noun

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tp

  1. Initialism oftoilet paper.
  2. (telecommunications)Initialism oftransponder.
    You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1tp.8.

Verb

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tp(third-person singular simple presenttp's,present participletp'ing,simple past and past participletp'ed)

  1. Totoilet paper;to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

Anagrams

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Egyptian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tp
Z1

m

  1. head
  2. individualperson,(if possessed)servant
    • c.2000BCE– 1900BCE,Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor(pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 177–179:
      aHaa
      n
      r
      a
      kwA1rSmsWA1ssAAHD63Y2
      k
      wA1mtpA1B1
      Z2
      V1V1
      ꜥḥꜥ.n(.j) rdj.kw r šmsw sꜣḥ.kw m štjtpw
      Then I was appointed as a retainer and endowed with two hundredservants(literally,heads).

Usage notes

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The reading of this word and related words (including the preposition below) has recently been contested. Werning and others have suggested that the traditional reading oftpis wrong, with the New Kingdom reading more likely beingdp,and the original reading conceivably eitherdporḏp.However, other Egyptologists argue for the traditional reading, and indeed the bulk of the current evidence seems to point to the traditional value.[2][3][4][5][6]

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Preposition

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tp
Z1
  1. on top of,atop
  2. above

Alternative forms

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Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  • James P[eter] Allen(2010)Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs,2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page89.
  1. ^Loprieno, Antonio (1995)Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page100
  2. ^Werning, Daniel A. (2004) “The Sound Values of the Signs Gardiner D1 (Head) and T8 (Dagger)” inLingua Aegyptia,volume 12, pages 183–204
  3. ^Peust, Carsten (2006) “Nochmals zur Lesung der Kopf-Hieroglyphe” inGöttinger Miszellen,volume 208, pages 7–8
  4. ^Schweitzer, Simon D. (2011) “Zum Lautwert einiger Hieroglyphen” inZeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde,volume 138, pages 132–149
  5. ^Werning, Daniel A. (2015)Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache,pages 34–35:
    • “Die Einwände von (Schweitzer 2011) gegen die Lesungdpsind nicht stichhaltig (was an anderer Stelle zu zeigen ist). Neben den unzweifelhaften Schreibungen von ‘Kopf’ als
      d
      p
      im Amduat (Werning 2004: 196) ist noch folgender, kursivhieroglyphisch geschriebener Beleg hinzuzufügen:
      Dsr
      r
      Y1d
      p
      tp
      Z1
      A40
      ‘Der ein „sakrales “Haupt hat’ (Papyrus BM 9971).”
  6. ^Roberson, Joshua Aaron (2018) “Tête-à-tête: Some Observations and Counter-Arguments Regarding a Contentious Phonological Value,dportp”inLingua Aegyptia,volume 26, pages 185–202

Indonesian

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Conjunction

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tp

  1. (text messaging)Abbreviationoftapi.