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

• → 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

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

declension of tulip

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

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