tulip

See also: TULIP and Tulip

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtulɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːlɪp/, /ˈtʃuːlɪp/

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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.

Derived terms

• cottage tulip
• May-flowering tulip
• tulip-breaking virus
• tulip-eared
• tulip glass
• tulip-like
• tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• tulip root
• tulip shell, tulip snail (Fasciolaria)
• tulip tree

 

Descendants

Descendants of tulip

• → 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) 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 (qyzğaldaq) 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 Maori: turipi Mongolian: алтан зул (altan zul) Norwegian: Bokmål: tulipan (no) m Nynorsk: tulipan m Ottoman Turkish: لاله (lale) 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 Roman: lala (sh) f, tulipan (sh) m Slovak: tulipán m Slovene: tulipan (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: tulpa f Spanish: tulipán (es) m Swedish: tulpan (sv) c Tajik: лола (lola‍) Tamil: துலிப் (tulip) Tatar: лалә (tt) (lalä) Thai: ทิวลิป (th) (thiu lip) Turkish: lale (tr) 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
• Tulipa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tulipa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• lit up, uplit, uptil

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

tulip

Wikipedia ^vi

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

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) tulip

1. a tulip

   Synonyms: uất kim hương, uất kim cương

Volapük

Noun

tulip (nominative plural tulips)

1. tulip

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	tulip	tulips
genitive	tulipa	tulipas
dative	tulipe	tulipes
accusative	tulipi	tulipis
vocative 1	o tulip!	o tulips!
predicative 2	tulipu	tulipus

declension of tulip

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only