hepsi

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish هپسی (hepsi, “all of it, all of them”), from Ottoman Turkish هپ (hep, “the whole, all, wholly, entirely”),[1] from Persian هم (ham, “also, too”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhep.si/
  • Hyphenation: hep‧si
  • Rhymes: -sɪ

Pronoun

hepsi

  1. All, all of it, the whole.

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هپ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2157
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hep”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
  • “hepsi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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