English

Noun

terp ‎(plural terps)

1. (military or Deaf, slang) An interpreter (translator).
   • 2003 November 27, Paul Watson, “Losing Its Few Good Men”, in the Los Angeles Times:

     But for troops in the new Afghan army, there is a particular irritant: Afghan interpreters working with U.S. soldiers — called terps by troops in the field — can earn more than an Afghan army officer.

2. (computing, slang) An interpreter (program that parses and executes another program).
   • 2009, "Dannii", IF System Idea (on newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction)

     As far as I know all the TADS terps are just ports of the original.

Etymology 2

Shortening of terpene.

Noun

terp ‎(plural terps)

1. Any of various essential oils containing monoterpene alcohols which are added to a henna mix to darken the color.

Verb

terp ‎(third-person singular simple present terps, present participle terping, simple past and past participle terped)

1. (transitive) To add such an essential oil to (a henna mix).

Anagrams

• pert, PERT

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛrp

Etymology

Borrowing from West Frisian terp.

Noun

terp m ‎(plural terpen, diminutive terpje n)

1. artificial mound or hillock used as shelter during high tide

Synonyms

• wierde

Anagrams

• pret, rept

West Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą ‎(“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- ‎(“dwelling, room”). Cognate with North Frisian torp, terp ‎(“village, fallow”), Dutch dorp ‎(“village”), German Dorf ‎(“hamlet, village, town”), Danish torp ‎(“village”), Swedish torp ‎(“farm, cottage, croft”), Icelandic þorp ‎(“village, farm”), Latin trabs ‎(“beam, rafter, roof”), Lithuanian trōbà ‎(“farmhouse”), Welsh tref ‎(“town”), Albanian trevë ‎(“country, region, village”).

Noun

terp c ‎(plural terpen, diminutive terpke)

1. artificial mound or hillock used as shelter during high tide
2. (archaic) village; nowadays replaced by doarp, which is of Dutch origin