1. Used in South Africa, Tanzania, and perhaps in some other African countries; a small hill or mound: The fig tree that served for decades as a lion scratching post was on a kopje, one of the isolated piles of rocks in the grasslands that are popular lion haunts.
2. Etymology: Kop is a hill or a headland; from Afrikaans which came from Dutch, "a head" and kopje also came from Afrikaans, a diminutive (small form) of Dutch, kop, "hill".