tulip

See also: TULIP, Tulip, and tu-líp

English

Tulips

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic دُوَل (duwal)bor.

Classical Persian دول (dōl, dawl)

Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰandʰás

Proto-Iranian *bandáh

Classical Persian بند (band)

Classical Persian دولْبَنْد (dōlband)bor.

Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent)bor.

Middle French tulipan

Middle French tulipebor.

English tulip

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtulɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːlɪp/
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃuːlɪp/

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Noun

tulip (plural tulips)

2. 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.

4. The flower of this plant.

Derived terms

• Cape tulip
• cottage tulip
• May-flowering tulip
• Tulip
• tulip-breaking virus
• tulip bulb
• tulip-eared
• tulip glass
• tulipist
• tulip-like
• tuliplike
• tulipmania
• tulip mania
• tulipomania
• tulipomaniac
• tulip orchid
• tulip plum
• tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• tulip root
• tulip shell, tulip snail (Fasciolaria)
• tulip tree
• tuliptree
• tulipwood
• tulipy

Descendants

Descendants

• → Arabic: تُولِيب (tūlīb)
• → Hindi: ट्यूलिप (ṭyūlip)
• → Irish: tiúilip
• → Japanese: チューリップ (chūrippu)
• → Korean: 튤립 (tyullip)
• → Scottish Gaelic: tiuilip
• → Thai: ทิวลิป (tiu-lìp)
• → Welsh: tiwlip

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: tulp (af)
• Albanian: tulipani
• Arabic: لَعْلَع m (laʕlaʕ), تُولِيب m (tūlīb)
• Aragonese: tulipán m
• Armenian: վարդակակաչ (hy) (vardakakačʻ)
• Aromanian: pãteadzã f, lalei f, tulipã f
• Asturian: tulipán m
• Azerbaijani: tülpan (az), dağlaləsi (az)
• Basque: idibihotz, kukupel
• Belarusian: цюльпа́н m (cjulʹpán)
• Bulgarian: лале́ (bg) f (lalé)
• Buryat: алтан зула сэсэг (altan zula seseg)
• Catalan: tulipa (ca) f
• Chechen: алцӏензӏам (alcʼenzˀam)
• Cherokee: ᏚᎵᏈ (duliqui)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鬱金香 / 郁金香 (wat¹ gam¹ hoeng¹)

  Mandarin: 鬱金香 / 郁金香 (zh) (yùjīnxiāng)

• Corsican: tulipanu m
• Czech: tulipán (cs) m
• Danish: tulipan (da) c
• Dutch: tulp (nl) f
• Esperanto: tulipo
• Estonian: tulp
• Faroese: tulipan f
• Finnish: tulppaani (fi)
• French: tulipe (fr) f
• Galician: tulipán (gl) m
• Georgian: ტიტა (ṭiṭa)
• German: Tulpe (de) f

  Alemannic German: Tulipaane f

• Greek: τουλίπα (el) f (toulípa)
• Hebrew: צבעוני (he) (tzivoni)
• Hindi: ट्यूलिप (ṭyūlip), लाला (hi) (lālā)
• Hungarian: tulipán (hu)
• Icelandic: túlípani m
• Indonesian: tulip (id)
• Irish: tiúilip f
• Italian: tulipano (it) m
• Japanese: チューリップ (ja) (chūrippu), 鬱金香 (ja) (うこんこう, ukonkō)
• Kazakh: қызғалдақ (qızğaldaq)
• Korean: 튤립 (ko) (tyullip)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tule (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жоогазын (ky) (joogazın)
• Lao: ດອກທິວລິບ (dǭk thiu lip)
• Latin: tulipa (la) f, tulipan f
• Latvian: tulpe (lv) m
• Lithuanian: tulpė f
• Macedonian: лале f (lale)
• Malay: tulip (ms)
• Maltese: tulipan
• Māori: turipi
• Mongolian: алтан зул (altan zul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tulipan (no) m

  Nynorsk: tulipan m

• Persian: لاله (fa) (lâle)
• Plautdietsch: Tulp f
• Polish: tulipan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: túlipa (pt) f
• Romanian: lalea (ro) f, tulipă (ro) f
• Russian: тюльпа́н (ru) m (tjulʹpán)
• Scottish Gaelic: tiuilip f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лала f, тулипан m

  Latin: lala (sh) f, tulipan (sh) m

• Slovak: tulipán m
• Slovene: tulipan (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tulpa f

• Spanish: tulipán (es) m, tulipa (es) f (small)
• Swedish: tulpan (sv) c
• Tajik: лола (lola‍)
• Tamil: துலிப் (tulip)
• Tatar: лалә (tt) (lalä)
• Thai: ทิวลิป (th) (thiu lip)
• Turkish: lale (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: لاله (lale)

• Turkmen: çigilden
• Ukrainian: тюльпа́н m (tjulʹpán)
• Urdu: لالہ (ur) (lāla)
• Uyghur: لالە (lale)
• Uzbek: lola (uz)
• Vietnamese: uất kim hương (鬱金香), uất kim cương, tulip (vi), tu-líp
• Welsh: tiwlip f
• Yiddish: טולפּאַן m (tulpan)

See also

• tulip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Tulipa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tulipa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• lit up, uplit, uptil

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtulip/ [ˈt̪u.lɪp̚]
• Rhymes: -ulip
• Syllabification: tu‧lip

Noun

tulip (plural tulip-tulip)

1. tulip

Further reading

• “tulip”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• tu-líp

Etymology

From English tulip.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tu˧˧ lip̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʊw˧˧ lip̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʊw˧˧ lip̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: tu líp

Noun

tulip (classifier cây, bông, hoa)

1. a tulip

   Synonyms: uất kim hương, uất kim cương

Volapük

Noun

tulip (genitive tulipa, plural tulips)

1. tulip

Declension

Declension of tulip

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tulip	tulips
Genitive	tulipa	tulipas
Dative	tulipe	tulipes
Accusative	tulipi	tulipis
Predicative1	tulipu	tulipus
Vocative	o tulip	o tulips

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Further reading

• “tulip”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)