Tulpe
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch tulp, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (dülbend), from Persian دلبند (dolband). Doublet of Tulipan.
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Tulpe f (genitive Tulpe, plural Tulpen, diminutive Tülpchen n)
- tulip
- Synonym: (obsolete) Tulipan
- a glass for mainly wine likened in form to a tulip
- (colloquial, dated) someone of a rare demeanour
- (regional, dated) a bumbershoot reversed in form due to the wind in a storm
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Declension of Tulpe [feminine]
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Tulpe