tulip

From French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtulɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːlɪp/
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃuːlɪp/

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tulip (plural tulips)

2. 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.

4. The flower of this plant.

• tulip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Tulipa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tulipa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• lit up, uplit, uptil

Internationalism, from French tulipe, the earlier form tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtulip/ [ˈt̪u.lɪp̚]
• Rhymes: -ulip
• Syllabification: tu‧lip

tulip (plural tulip-tulip)

1. tulip

• “tulip”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• tu-líp

From English tulip.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tu˧˧ lip̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʊw˧˧ lip̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʊw˧˧ lip̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: tu líp

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) tulip

1. a tulip

   Synonyms: uất kim hương, uất kim cương

tulip (genitive tulipa, plural tulips)

1. tulip