turbant

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bənt/

Noun

turbant (plural turbants)

  1. 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

Noun

turbant m (plural turbants)

  1. turban

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Latin

Verb

turbant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of turbō
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