turbant
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bənt/
Noun
turbant (plural turbants)
- Obsolete form of turban.
- c. 1640, James Howell, England's Teares
- I see the Turke nodding with his Turbant
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book IV, lines 69 to 79.
- […] Some from furthest south, / Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, / Meroë, Nilotic isle; and, more to west, / The realm of Bocchus to the Black-moor sea; / From the Asian kings, and Parthian among these; / From India and the Golden Chersonese, / And utmost Indian isle Taprobanè, / Dusk faces with white silken turbants wreathed; / From Gallia, Gades, and the British west, / Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians north, / Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
References
turbant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Catalan
Etymology
From Middle French turbant or from Italian turbante, both ultimately from Persian دلبند (dolband).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /tuɾˈbant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /turˈban/
Noun
turbant m (plural turbants)
- turban
Further reading
- “turbant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “turbant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Latin
Verb
turbant
- third-person plural present active indicative of turbō