The story
- Hindi · derived fromचुप“silence!”
- Malay · borrowed fromchup“a cry in a game requesting a halt or the retraction of a stroke”
- English todaychope
From Malay chup (“a cry in a game requesting a halt or the retraction of a stroke”), possibly from Hindi चुप (cup, “silence!”).
Words from the same roots
Hindiचुप all →
chup
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.