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Where does “توپ” come from?

توپ (Classical Persian) comes from Ottoman Turkish طوپ, from Old Turkic tōp.

Ancestry of “توپ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishطوپball; knob; cannon
2Old Turkictōp—
Every word from Old Turkic tōp →