turban English · revision 828

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈtɜːbən/ ''(UK)''; /ˈtɝbən/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|turbant]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) [[der|it|turbante]] (Old Italian ''tolipante''),^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) [[der|tr|tülbent|t=gauze, muslin]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(Hoad 1986) [[der|fa|دلبند|tr=dulband|t=turban]].^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(Hoad 1986) It is the same word as [[tulip]].^(Etymonline) The change of ''l'' to ''r'' may have taken place in Portuguese India and spread to other European languages,^(Etymonline) and may have been encouraged by a chance resemblance to Latin ''turbō'' “spinning top”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A man's headdress of Muslim origin, a long cloth wound round a cap (1561, in the form ''tolipane'').^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Early English forms include ''tolipane'' (1561), ''torbant'' (1588) and ''turban'' (1597).^(Barnhart 1995)^(Hoad 1986) From 1610 the turban was used as a symbol of Islam.^(OED 1989) A modified version became a fashionable headdress for women in Europe and America about 1776–1800,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and it has been revived from time to time as a close-fitting brimless hat.^(Etymonline)^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate) The word was also used of the cloth headdress of Black women in the West Indies and the American South (1839).^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) In cookery a ''turban'' is a ring-shaped mould of fish or meat (1846).^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1561 – ''tolipane'', a turban.^(Barnhart 1995)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1588 – ''torbant''.^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1597 – ''turban''.^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1776 – a women's fashion headdress.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1822 – verb, to wrap as with a turban.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A man's headdress, traditionally worn by [[Muslim|alt=Muslims]], made of a long scarf of linen, cotton or silk wound around a small cap or directly around the head.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A woman's close-fitting hat without a brim, or with a narrow draped brim.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A towel wrapped round long wet hair in a similar way.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[turbaned]]

+ * [[turbanless]]

+ * [[turbanlike]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tulip]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}