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Definition: Turban |
TurbanNoun1. A traditional Moslem headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head. 2. A small round woman's hat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turban" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Turban \Tur"ban\, noun. [from Old English expression turband, turbant, tolibant, French turban, Italian turbante, Turk. tulbend, dulbend, from the Persian expression dulband. Compare to Tulip.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TurbanSynonyms: pillbox (n), toque (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Early Persians wore a conical cap sometimes encircled by bands of cloth, which may be considered one of the origins of the modern turban. The turban didn't become common among the Turks. The best known modern man who wears turbans is Usama bin Laden.
Turban's shape, size and color varies and the cloth's lenght could be even 45 meters. In some ares, especially in Rajasthan the turban's size could indicate the position of the person in society.
In India name of the turban is a pagdi. There exists different variations of the headdress, depending on the region and religion. In fact, in Rajasthan it is said that the style of the turban changes with every 15 km you travel. Other thing is that Rajput turbans are different from Sikh turbans, which are in turn different from the classical Arab turbans. There are also royal turbans from different parts of India and the rural version of turban which is often just a towel wound round the head.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Turban."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, billycock, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Turban |
| English words defined with "turban": Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis ♦ Mundil ♦ Shash ♦ turban squash, Turband, turbaned, Turban-shell, Turbant, Turk's head, Turribant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "turban": Fakir', Feather in Your Cap, Feme-covert. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "turban": tulip, Turbant, Turribant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Turban" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (turban), French (turban), German (turban), Manx (turban), Romanian (turban), Serbo-Croatian (turban), Swedish (turban). |
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Screenplays | Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban. (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Person in elaborate costume and turban, three-quarter length, rear view, face turned away. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Afghan American man holding U.S. flags and wearing red, white, and blue in his turban participates in a vigil held by his community at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., following the attacks of September 11th. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Tebbi, the nice man in the New York Yankees turban, told us it'll be ready in the year Pi. |
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| "Turban" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turban" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 87 | 35,390 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "turban": turban squash ♦ Turk's turban. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "turban": Turban-shell, turban-style, Turban-top, turban-wise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
turban | 533 | turban for cancer patient | 4 |
make a turban | 16 | making turban | 4 |
tie a turban | 13 | college turban wiley.com | 3 |
picture of turban | 12 | make pattern turban | 3 |
indian turban | 11 | muslim turban | 3 |
sikh turban | 9 | turban towel | 3 |
wrap a turban | 9 | head turban | 3 |
turban pattern | 8 | turban tying | 3 |
hair turban | 7 | turban wrapping | 3 |
round turban | 6 | rebellion turban yellow | 3 |
prenhall.com turban | 6 | microfiber hair turban | 2 |
hat turban | 5 | hadji turban | 2 |
history turban | 5 | afghan turban | 2 |
man turban | 5 | india turban | 2 |
cancer turban pattern | 5 | scarfs turban | 2 |
cancer turban | 4 | snail turban | 2 |
rose turban | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "turban"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kapelë grash (bonnet, picture hat), çallmë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قالتربان بعة نسوية, عمة (aunt, auntie), عمامة (tiara), شملة عمامة (headband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чалма, тюрбан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鞨 (buskin, name of a tribe), 襆 (hemless skirt, hood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | turban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | turbantumor (turban tumor), turbangræskar (turban squash), hornet turbansnegl (horned turban), en art snegl (horned turban). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Turkse muts (turban squash), tumor van turban (turban tumor), tulbandtumor (turban tumor), tulbandkalebas (turban squash), hoornturbo (horned turban). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کلاه عمامه مانند, عمامه (Sash), دستار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turbaani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | turban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | turban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαρίκι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצ פת (bonnet, headdress, shtreiml), תרבוש (fez), צ יף (mitre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | turbán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sorban, serban, ikat kepala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | turbante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ソ連 (Russia, Soviet Union, tar, target, term, terminal, terminal building, terminal care, terminator, turbine, turbo, turbocharger, turquoise, zombie, zone, Zoroaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ターバン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | turban, kione-eaddagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urbantay turbante. (various references) turban, cealma. (various references) тюрбан. (various references) turban, čalma (arab headkerchief). (various references) turbante. (various references) turban. (various references) türban, sarık. (various references) selle. (various references) тюрбан (sash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | aga. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mitra. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cucurbita maxima var. turbaniformis, Cucurbita melopepo, mitra, mitram, mitras, Turbo cornutus. (various references) |
| Persian | 800-Modern | dulband. (various references) |
| Turkish | 1200-Modern | tlbent. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turban": turbaned, turbanned, turbans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "turban": disturbance, disturbances. (additional references) | |
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"Turban" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: furban, Iturbe, Iturbi, Jubran, Qurban, tabrn, thurian, tirba, Torbane, Torbin, torcan, Torkan, trba, trubant, tuban, Tubiana, Tulbah, Turabi, turan, turb, turbain, turbal, turbas, turben, turbin, turca, turnan, turran. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turban" (pronounced ter"bun) |
| 4 | -er" b u n | bourbon, interurban, suburban, urban. |
| 3 | -b u n | bobbin, cabin, carbon, corban, fluorocarbon, Gibbon, graben, hemoglobin, hydrocarbon, jacobin, Leben, psilocybin, ribbon, Robin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: brant, brunt, buran, burnt, tabun, unbar, urban. | |
-2 letters: abut, aunt, barn, bran, brat, brut, bunt, bura, burn, rant, runt, tabu, tarn, tuba, tuna, turn. | |
-3 letters: ant, arb, art, ban, bar, bat, bra, bun, bur, but, nab, nub, nut, ran, rat, rub, run, rut, tab, tan, tar, tau, tub, tun, urb, urn, uta. | |
-4 letters: ab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: turbans. | |
+2 letters: arbutean, bankrupt, braunite, breadnut, rambutan, runabout, tribunal, turbaned, turbinal, turbofan, turnable, urbanest, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity. | |
+3 letters: abruption, antiurban, bankrupts, banqueter, braunites, breadnuts, exuberant, heartburn, incubator, lubricant, obscurant, rambutans, runabouts, subaltern, sunbather, tabouring, tenurable, tribunals, tribunate, turbanned, turbinals, turbinate, turbofans, turnabout, turntable, unstabler, urbanists, urbanites. | |
+4 letters: abjuration, abruptions, abruptness, bankruptcy, bankrupted, banqueters, bladdernut, brontosaur, buccinator, earthbound, exurbanite, gangbuster, heartburns, incubators, incubatory, interurban, lubricants, obscurants, obturating, obturation, outbargain, outbarking, outbraving, paintbrush, returnable, roundabout, roundtable, subalterns, subcentral, subtrahend, sunbathers, tambourine, tambouring, tribunates, turbinated, turbinates, turnabouts, turntables, urbanistic, urbanities. | |
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