turban

See also: Turban, turbán, and türban

English

A Sikh wearing a turban.

Etymology

From Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband), also the root of tulip.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːbən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝbən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

Noun

turban (plural turbans)

2. (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
   • 1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 4:

     Me thinks I ſee the Turke nodding vvith his Turban, and telling me that I ſhould thanke Heaven for that diſtance vvhich is betvvixt us, els he vvould ſvvallovv me all up at one morſell; […]

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 82, lines 74–76:

     From India and the golden Cherſoneſs, / And utmoſt Indian Iſle Taprobane, / Dusk faces vvith vvhite ſilken Turbants vvreath'd: […]

   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.

3. A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
4. The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
6. A towel wrapped around long wet hair in a manner resembling a turban.
   • 2021 April 1, Helen Wilson-Beevers, “8 best hair towel wraps and turbans that protect and dry your locks”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-14:

     Towel hair wraps come in a mixture of materials, from microfibre to polyester, while satin and silk are the go-to materials for sleep turbans.

   • 2021 November 17, Matilda Rudd, “REVEALED: The $43 ‘magic’ hair towel that leaves your locks shiny and shaves your drying time by 50 per cent after a shower”, in Daily Mail‎^[2], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-18:

     While there are certainly other towel turbans on the market, this one has women scratching their heads in confusion and asking: 'How does it work so well?'

Alternative forms

• turbant, tulipant (obsolete)

Derived terms

• enturban
• French turban
• turban buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus var.)
• turban lily (Lilium pomponium)
• turban shell
• turban shell, turban snail (Turbinidae spp.)
• turban squash
• turban squash (Cucurbita maxima vars.)
• turban-top
• turban-top (Helvella spp., Gyromitra esculenta
• Turk's turban
• yoka star turban

 

Translations

man’s head-dress

• Albanian: çallmë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِمَامَة f (ʕimāma)

  Hijazi Arabic: عمامة f (ʕimāma), غبانة f (ḡabāna)

  Moroccan Arabic: عمامة f (ʕmāma)

• Armenian: չալմա (hy) (čʻalma)
• Assamese: পাগুৰি (paguri), পাগ (pag)
• Azerbaijani: çalma (az), sarıq
• Belarusian: чалма́ f (čalmá), цюрба́н m (cjurbán)
• Bengali: পাগড়ি (bn) (pagṛi), দস্তার (bn) (dostar), পাগ (pag), সরবন্দ (bn) (sorbond), আমামা (bn) (amama)
• Bulgarian: тюрба́н m (tjurbán)
• Catalan: turbant (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᏚᎶ (alasdulo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頭帕／头帕 (zh) (tóupà), 幞 (zh) (fú), 包頭／包头 (zh) (bāotóu), 纏頭／缠头 (zh) (chántóu), 頭巾／头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)

• Crimean Tatar: çalma
• Czech: turban (cs) m
• Danish: turban c
• Dutch: tulband (nl)
• Esperanto: turbano
• Estonian: turban (et)
• Finnish: turbaani (fi)
• French: turban (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩალმა (ka) (čalma)
• German: Turban (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τιάρα f (tiára)

• Gujarati: ફાળિયું n (phāḷiyũ), પાઘડી f (pāghḍī)
• Hausa: rawani
• Hebrew: טוּרבָּן m (turban), צָנִיף (he) m (tzaníf)
• Hindi: पगड़ी (hi) f (pagṛī), उश्णीष m (uśṇīṣ), दस्तार (hi) m (dastār)
• Hungarian: turbán (hu)
• Icelandic: vefjarhöttur m, túrban m
• Indonesian: serban (id)
• Irish: turban m
• Italian: turbante (it) m
• Japanese: 頭巾 (ja) (zukin), ターバン (ja) (tāban)
• Karachay-Balkar: чалма (çalma)
• Kazakh: сәлде (sälde)
• Korean: 터번 (teobeon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: destar (ku), turban (ku)

• Kyrgyz: селде (ky) (selde)
• Latin: mītra f
• Latvian: turbāns m
• Lithuanian: turbanas m
• Macedonian: ту́рбан m (túrban), ча́лма f (čálma)
• Malay: serban (ms)
• Ngazidja Comorian: kiemɓa class 9/10
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turban m

  Nynorsk: turban m

• Ossetian: сарыхъ (saryq)
• Ottoman Turkish: چالمه (çalma), دستار (destar)
• Pashto: دستار (ps) m (dastãr), لونګۍ f (lungᶕy)
• Persian:

  Dari Persian: لنگی (lungī), دستار (fa) (dastār)

  Iranian Persian: دستار (fa) (dastâr), عمامه (fa) ('ammâme, 'emâme)

• Plautdietsch: Wekjelduak n
• Polish: turban (pl) m, zawój (pl) m
• Portuguese: turbante (pt)
• Punjabi: ਦਸਤਾਰ (pa) f (dastār), ਪੱਗ f (pagga), ਪੱਗੜੀ f (paggaṛī)
• Romanian: turban (ro) n
• Russian: чалма́ (ru) f (čalmá), тюрба́н (ru) m (tjurbán), даста́р m (dastár) (specific to regions)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ту̀рба̄н m, ча̑лма f, са̀рук m

  Roman: tùrbān (sh) m, čȃlma (sh) f, sàruk (sh) m

• Slovak: turban m
• Slovene: turban (sl) m
• Spanish: turbante (es) m
• Swahili: kilemba (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: turban (sv) c
• Tagalog: pugong
• Tajik: дастор (dastor), аммома (ammoma), салла (salla)
• Tatar: чалма (çalma)
• Thai: ผ้าโพกหัว (pâa-pôok-hǔua)
• Turkish: türban (tr), sarık (tr), destar (tr)
• Turkmen: selle
• Ukrainian: чалма́ f (čalmá), тюрба́н m (tjurbán)
• Urdu: پگڑی f (pagṛī), دستار f (dastār)
• Uyghur: سەللە (selle)
• Uzbek: salla (uz), amoma (uz)
• Vietnamese: khăn đóng, khăn (vi)
• Welsh: tyrban m
• Yiddish: טורבאַן m (turban)
• Yoruba: lawani
• Zazaki: şal (diq), çefi (diq), mundi

woman’s hat

• Bulgarian: тюрбан m (tjurban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女用頭巾／女用头巾 (nǚyòng tóujīn)

• Finnish: turbaani (fi)
• German: Turban (de) m
• Italian: turbante (it) m
• Japanese: 頭巾 (ja) (zukin), ターバン (ja) (tāban)
• Polish: zawój (pl) m
• Turkish: türban (tr)
• Zazaki: leceg, şal (diq), zolek f

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• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} çalma (tr)

Verb

turban (third-person singular simple present turbans, present participle turbaning, simple past and past participle turbaned)

1. (transitive) To cover (a person's head) with a turban.
   • 2014, Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson, Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond, page 186:

     While the law did not specifically target Sikhs, turbaned Sikh schoolchildren attending state schools were severely affected

   • 2018, Madilyn Elliott, Global Expats: A Journey in Italy:

     When we arrived to the shop the man in charge told the staff to turban our heads.

See also

• puggry, puggree

Further reading

• turban on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nut bar, nut-bar, nutbar, tanbur

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tur‧ban

Noun

turban

1. a turban
2. a headband; a hair-accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturban]
• Hyphenation: tur‧ban

Noun

turban m inan

1. turban

Declension

Declension of turban (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	turban	turbany
genitive	turbanu	turbanů
dative	turbanu	turbanům
accusative	turban	turbany
vocative	turbane	turbany
locative	turbanu	turbanech
instrumental	turbanem	turbany

Further reading

• “turban”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “turban”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “turban”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

From Italian turbante, from Turkish tülbent, from Persian دلبند. Doublet of tulipan.

Noun

turban c (singular definite turbanen, plural indefinite turbaner)

1. turban (male headdress)

Declension

Declension of turban

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	turban	turbanen	turbaner	turbanerne
genitive	turbans	turbanens	turbaners	turbanernes

References

• “turban” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband).

Noun

turban m (plural turbans)

1. turban (male headdress)

Derived terms

• enturbanner
• enturbannement
• turbané

Descendants

• → Danish: turban
• → English: turban
• → German: Turban
  • → Serbo-Croatian: tùrbān, ту̀рба̄н
• → Polish: turban
• → Russian: тюрба́н (tjurbán)
• → Swedish: turban
• → Turkish: türban

Further reading

• “turban”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bruant

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French turban, Italian turbante, Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”), same origin as tulipan.

Noun

turban m (definite singular turbanen, indefinite plural turbaner, definite plural turbanene)

1. a turban

References

• “turban” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “turban” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French turban, Italian turbante, Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”), same origin as tulipan.

Noun

turban m (definite singular turbanen, indefinite plural turbanar, definite plural turbanane)

1. a turban

References

• “turban” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French turban, from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband). Doublet of tulipan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ban/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urban
• Syllabification: tur‧ban

Noun

turban m inan (diminutive turbanik)

1. turban

   Synonym: zawój

Declension

Declension of turban

	singular	plural
nominative	turban	turbany
genitive	turbanu	turbanów
dative	turbanowi	turbanom
accusative	turban	turbany
instrumental	turbanem	turbanami
locative	turbanie	turbanach
vocative	turbanie	turbany

Further reading

• turban in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French turban, from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband).

Noun

turban n (plural turbane)

1. turban

Declension

Declension of turban

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) turban	turbanul	(niște) turbane	turbanele
genitive/dative	(unui) turban	turbanului	(unor) turbane	turbanelor
vocative	turbanule		turbanelor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Turban, from Ottoman Turkish دبند (dülbend) (Turkish tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband).

Doublet of tȕlipān (“tulip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǔrbaːn/
• Hyphenation: tur‧ban

Noun

tùrbān m (Cyrillic spelling ту̀рба̄н)

1. turban

   Synonyms: čȃlma, sàruk

Declension

Declension of turban

	singular	plural
nominative	tùrbān	turbani
genitive	turbána	turbana
dative	turbanu	turbanima
accusative	turban	turbane
vocative	turbane	turbani
locative	turbanu	turbanima
instrumental	turbanom	turbanima

Further reading

• “turban”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǔrbaːn/
• Hyphenation: tur‧ban

Noun

tùrbān m (Cyrillic spelling ту̀рба̄н)

1. a sea urchin of the family Cidaridae
2. turban snail (Bolma rugosa, Turbinidae)

Declension

Declension of turban

	singular	plural
nominative	tùrbān	turbani
genitive	turbána	turbana
dative	turbanu	turbanima
accusative	turbana	turbane
vocative	turbane	turbani
locative	turbanu	turbanima
instrumental	turbanom	turbanima

Further reading

• “turban”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturban]

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Noun

turban m inan

1. turban

Declension

Declension of turban

	singular	plural
nominative	turban	turbany
genitive	turbanu	turbanov
dative	turbanu	turbanom
accusative	turban	turbany
locative	turbane	turbanoch
instrumental	turbanom	turbanmi

Further reading

• “turban”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Verb

turban

1. third-person plural present indicative of turbar

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɵrˈbɑːn/

Noun

turban c

1. a turban

Declension

Declension of turban

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	turban	turbans
	definite	turbanen	turbanens
plural	indefinite	turbaner	turbaners
	definite	turbanerna	turbanernas

References

• turban in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• turban in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• turban in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• brutna, buntar