tulip

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English

Tulips

Etymology

From French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban.

Pronunciation

Noun

tulip (plural tulips)

  1. A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
    • 1876 April, “The Tulip Mania”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LII, number CCCXL:
      "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  2. The flower of this plant.

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Descendants

Descendants

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Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From English tulip.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) tulip

  1. a tulip
    Synonyms: uất kim hương, uất kim cương

Volapük

Noun

tulip (nominative plural tulips)

  1. tulip

Declension

declension of tulip
singular plural
nominative tulip tulips
genitive tulipa tulipas
dative tulipe tulipes
accusative tulipi tulipis
vocative 1 o tulip! o tulips!
predicative 2 tulipu tulipus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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