tulipan
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tulipano, from Turkish tülbent (whence also turban), from Persian دلبند (dolband).
Noun
tulipan c (singular definite tulipanen, plural indefinite tulipaner)
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tulipan | tulipanen | tulipaner | tulipanerne |
| genitive | tulipans | tulipanens | tulipaners | tulipanernes |
Further reading
Friulian
Pronunciation
Noun
tulipan m (plural tulipans)
Further reading
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tulipano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu.lɪˈpaːn/
Noun
tulipan m (plural tulipani)
- tulip (plant of the genus Tulipa)
- 1936, R. M. B., “Għal kull ma ħlaqtilna iċ-ċaħda trid minn’na”, in Lehen il-Malti, numbers 61-62, lines 10–12:
- ġiżimin, ġiżi, dalji u tulipan !
X’għaxqa ta’ lwien imżewqa, sbieħ, safjin !
ifuħu kollha : iżda mhux bħal xuxlin !!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”), via Turkish tülbent, and Italian tulipano.
Noun
tulipan m (definite singular tulipanen, indefinite plural tulipaner, definite plural tulipanene)
References
- “tulipan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”), via Turkish tülbent, and Italian tulipano.
Noun
tulipan m (definite singular tulipanen, indefinite plural tulipanar, definite plural tulipanane)
References
- “tulipan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Noun
tulipan m (plural tulipans)
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- tülipan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyliˈpaŋ/
Noun
tulipan m (plural tulipan)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tulipano, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband). Doublet of turban. Sense 2 refers to the similarity of the sharp edges of a broken bottle to a tulip's petals.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈli.pan/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ipan
- Syllabification: tu‧li‧pan
Noun
tulipan m animal
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tulipan | tulipany |
| genitive | tulipana | tulipanów |
| dative | tulipanowi | tulipanom |
| accusative | tulipana | tulipany |
| instrumental | tulipanem | tulipanami |
| locative | tulipanie | tulipanach |
| vocative | tulipanie | tulipany |
Further reading
- tulipan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tulipan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From New Latin tulipa, from Italian tulipano, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (dülbend, “turban”) (Turkish tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪ûlipaːn/
- Hyphenation: tu‧lip‧an
Noun
tȕlipān m inan (Cyrillic spelling ту̏липа̄н)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tulipan | tulipani |
| genitive | tulipana | tulipana |
| dative | tulipanu | tulipanima |
| accusative | tulipan | tulipane |
| vocative | tulipane | tulipani |
| locative | tulipanu | tulipanima |
| instrumental | tulipanom | tulipanima |
Further reading
- “tulipan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025