Word history
Wiktionary records ఉప్పు (uppu) as a Telugu surname. The entry compares the Telugu word with Tamil uppu, Malayalam uppŭ and Kannada uppu. Its etymology explicitly gives salt as the sense of the Tamil cognate. ఉప్పు writes the doubled consonant retained in the Latin spelling Uppu. The comparison concerns related vocabulary across languages; it does not establish an occupation or a place of origin for a household.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
Native-script forms
ఉప్పు · Telugu
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Telugu entry, etymology and surname sense
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