tulip
pronunciation
How to pronounce tulip in British English:
UK [ˈtjuːlɪp]
How to pronounce tulip in American English:
US [ˈtuːlɪp]
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- Noun:
- any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
Word Origin
- tulip
- tulip: [16] Tulip and turban [16] are ultimately the same word. Both come from Persian dulband, and the name was applied to the plant because of its flower’s supposed resemblance to a turban. Dulband was borrowed into Turkish as tuliband, and this made its way into English via early modern French tulipan and modern Latin tulipa, acquiring its botanical meaning along the way (relatives that preserve the link with turban slightly more closely include Swedish tulpan, Danish tulipan, Italian tulipano, and Russian tjul’pan). Meanwhile Turkish tuliband evolved to tülbend, and this passed into English via Italian turbante and French turbant as turban.=> turban
- tulip (n.)
- 1570s, via Dutch or German tulpe, French tulipe "a tulip" (16c.), all ultimately from Turkish tülbent "turban," also "gauze, muslin," from Persian dulband "turban;" so called from the fancied resemblance of the flower to a turban. Introduced from Turkey to Europe, where the earliest known instance of a tulip flowering in cultivation is 1559 in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart in Augsburg; popularized in Holland after 1587 by Clusius. The tulip-mania raged in Holland in the 1630s. The full form of the Turkish word is represented in Italian tulipano, Spanish tulipan, but the -an tended to drop in Germanic languages, where it was mistaken for a suffix. Tulip tree (1705), a North American magnolia, so called from its tulip-shaped flowers.
Example
- 1. These two minarets are made in the form of tulip buds .
- 2. Finance has a history of messing up , from the dutch tulip bubble in 1637 to now .
- 3. Hoff is a dutch inventor and former tulip and lily grower who had come to oman to test an experimental tree-planting device .
- 4. Tulip prices entered a steep decline with the value of some rare bulbs declining more than 99 percent .
- 5. Sniff its bouquet , however , and the wine boom has hints of tulip mania .