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tulip

See also: TULIP, Tulip, and tu-líp

English

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Tulips

Etymology

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

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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.

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Vietnamese

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Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From English tulip.

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Noun

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(classifier cây, bông, hoa) tulip

  1. a tulip
    Synonyms: uất kim hương, uất kim cương

Volapük

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Noun

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tulip (nominative plural tulips)

  1. tulip

Declension

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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

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