turban

See also: Turban, turbán, and türban

English

A Sikh wearing a turban.

Alternative forms

• tulipant (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝbən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːbən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

Noun

turban (plural turbans)

1. A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
   • 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.

2. A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
3. The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.

Derived terms

• enturban
• enturbanment
• enturbanning
• turbanned

Translations

man's head-dress

• Albanian: çallmë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِمَامَة‎ f (ʕimāma)
• Armenian: չալմա (hy) (čʿalma)
• Assamese: পাগুৰি (paguri), পাগ (pag)
• Azerbaijani: çalma (az), sarıq
• Belarusian: чалма́ f (čalmá), цюрба́н m (cjurbán)
• Bengali: পাগড়ি (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 (čalma)
• German: Turban (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τιάρα f (tiára)

• Gujarati: ફાળિયું n (phāḷiyũ)
• Hausa: rawani
• Hebrew: טוּרבָּן‎ m (turban)
• 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 (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: 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, mundi (diq)

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 (tāban)
• Polish: zawój (pl) m
• Turkish: türban (tr)
• Zazaki: leceg, şal (diq), zolek f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

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, 1935–1957
• turban in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• turban in Internetová jazyková příručka

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

  (file)

• 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 Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• turban in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

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

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

Synonyms

• (turban): čȃlma, sàruk

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

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturban]

Noun

turban m inan (genitive singular turbanu, nominative plural turbany, genitive plural turbanov, declension pattern of dub)

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 Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	turban	turbanen	turbaner	turbanerna
Genitive	turbans	turbanens	turbaners	turbanernas

Anagrams

• brutna, buntar