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.
双语例句
1. In a vase on the table stood a tulip.
桌上的花瓶里插着一束郁金香.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Beneath this, on the mantelshelf, is displayed a collec-tion of seventeenth-century tulip vases.
下面的壁炉架上陈列的是一批17世纪的郁金香花瓶。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Some day I'd like you to see our tulip fields in bloom.
总有一天我要让你们去看看我们那郁金香花盛开的田野.
来自辞典例句
4. The fairy flew with the baby over the tulip bed.
仙女抱着小孩飞到了郁金香花圃的上空.
来自辞典例句
5. The bride was very young, very slender, a white tulip.
