Tayyip

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Tayyip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæjɪp/

Proper noun

Tayyip

  1. A male given name from Turkish.
    • 2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 23 April 2025:
      In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طیب (Tayyip), from Arabic طَيِّب (ṭayyib, good).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaj.jip/

Proper noun

Tayyip

  1. a male given name from Arabic
    1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 12th and current president of Turkey (2014–present).

Declension

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