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tepati

tepati

Czech

Verb

tepati

  1. to beat, throb

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *teti (to beat) (Russian тепти́ (teptí), Czech tepati), Lithuanian tepti. Akin to tȅpsti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /têpati/
  • Hyphenation: te‧pa‧ti

Verb

tȅpati impf (Cyrillic spelling те̏пати)

  1. (intransitive) to babble (of a baby)
  2. (intransitive, with dative) to use baby talk, coo
  3. (reflexive, Torlakian) to fight
    • 2005, Кулин Бан, Жали, Заре, да жалимо:
      па ће пређем Вардар воду, Вардар воду бьш голему, / ће се тепам с тија Турци, с тија Турци Арнаути.
      then I will cross the Vardar water, the Vardar water truly wide, / I will fight with those Turks, with those Turk Arnauts.

Conjugation

References

  • tepati” in Hrvatski jezični portal