name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
tulip
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈtulɪp/
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standard: /ˈtjuːlɪp/
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/ˈtʃuːlɪp/ yod-coalescence
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CMU ARPABET: T UW1 L AH0 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A female given name from English, of rare usage.
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noun
Meaning 3
A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
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noun
Meaning 4
The flower of this plant.
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noun
Meaning 5
Acronym for the Five Points of Calvinist doctrine: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints
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Usage: mnemonic
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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noun
Meaning 6
any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
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Broader terms: liliaceous plant
Narrower terms: dwarf tulip, Tulipa armena, Tulipa suaveolens, lady tulip, candlestick tulip, Tulipa clusiana, Tulipa gesneriana, cottage tulip, Darwin tulip
History
Etymology
Unexplained, but possibly a late formation from tulip.
From tulip.
From Middle French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “cheesecloth”), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband, “turban”). Doublet of turban.
Across languages
Translations
96 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: tulp — plant
- Albanian: tulipani — plant
- Arabic: لَعْلَع (laʕlaʕ) — plant
- Arabic: تُولِيب (tūlīb) — plant
- Aragonese: tulipán — plant
- Armenian: վարդակակաչ (vardakakačʻ) — plant
- Aromanian: pãteadzã — plant
- Aromanian: lalei — plant
- Aromanian: tulipã — plant
- Asturian: tulipán — plant
- Azerbaijani: tülpan — plant
- Azerbaijani: dağlaləsi — plant
- Basque: idibihotz — plant
- Basque: kukupel — plant
- Belarusian: цюльпа́н (cjulʹpán) — plant
- Bulgarian: лале́ (lalé) — plant
- Buryat: алтан зула сэсэг (altan zula seseg) — plant
- Catalan: tulipa — plant
- Chechen: алцӏензӏам (alcʼenzˀam) — plant
- Cherokee: ᏚᎵᏈ (duliqui) — plant
- Chinese Cantonese: 鬱金香 /郁金香 (wat1 gam1 hoeng1) — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 鬱金香 /郁金香 (yùjīnxiāng) — plant
- Corsican: tulipanu — plant
- Czech: tulipán — plant
- Danish: tulipan — plant
- Dutch: tulp — plant
- Esperanto: tulipo — plant
- Estonian: tulp — plant
- Faroese: tulipan — plant
- Finnish: tulppaani — plant
- French: tulipe — plant
- Galician: tulipán — plant
- Georgian: ტიტა (ṭiṭa) — plant
- German: Tulpe — plant
- German: Tulipaane — plant
- Greek: τουλίπα (toulípa) — plant
- Hebrew: צבעוני (tzivoni) — plant
- Hindi: ट्यूलिप (ṭyūlip) — plant
- Hindi: लाला (lālā) — plant
- Hungarian: tulipán — plant
- Icelandic: túlípani — plant
- Indonesian: tulip — plant
- Irish: tiúilip — plant
- Italian: tulipano — plant
- Japanese: チューリップ (chūrippu) — plant
- Japanese: 鬱金香 (ukonkō) — plant
- Kazakh: қызғалдақ (qyzğaldaq) — plant
- Korean: 튤립 (tyullip) — plant
- Northern Kurdish: tule — plant
- Kyrgyz: жоогазын (joogazın) — plant
- Lao: ດອກທິວລິບ (dǭk thiu lip) — plant
- Latin: tulipa — plant
- Latin: tulipan — plant
- Latvian: tulpe — plant
- Lithuanian: tulpė — plant
- Macedonian: лале (lale) — plant
- Malay: tulip — plant
- Maltese: tulipan — plant
- Māori: turipi — plant
- Mongolian: алтан зул (altan zul) — plant
- Norwegian Bokmål: tulipan — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tulipan — plant
- Persian: لاله (lâle) — plant
- Plautdietsch: Tulp — plant
- Polish: tulipan — plant
- Portuguese: túlipa — plant
- Romanian: lalea — plant
- Romanian: tulipă — plant
- Russian: тюльпа́н (tjulʹpán) — plant
- Scottish Gaelic: tiuilip — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: лала — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: тулипан — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: lala — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: tulipan — plant
- Slovak: tulipán — plant
- Slovene: tulipan — plant
- Lower Sorbian: tulpa — plant
- Spanish: tulipán — plant
- Swedish: tulpan — plant
- Tajik: лола (lola) — plant
- Tamil: துலிப் (tulip) — plant
- Tatar: лалә (lalä) — plant
- Thai: ทิวลิป (thiu lip) — plant
- Turkish: lale — plant
- Ottoman Turkish: لاله (lale) — plant
- Turkmen: çigilden — plant
- Ukrainian: тюльпа́н (tjulʹpán) — plant
- Urdu: لالہ (lāla) — plant
- Uyghur: لالە (lale) — plant
- Uzbek: lola — plant
- Vietnamese: uất kim hương — plant
- Vietnamese: uất kim cương — plant
- Vietnamese: tulip — plant
- Vietnamese: tu-líp — plant
- Welsh: tiwlip — plant
- Yiddish: טולפּאַן (tulpan) — plant