دلبند

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دولبند (dülbent, tülbent), تولبند (tülbent)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دلبند (dolband).

Noun

دلبند • (dülbend)

1. muslin, any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth
2. kind of gauzy cotton used in the production of turbans
3. cheesecloth, a loosely woven cotton gauze used to wrap cheese

Derived terms

• دلبند آغاسی (dülbend ağası, “valet who had charge of the muslins”)
• دلبند لاله (dülbend lale, “white tulip”)
• دلبندجی (dülbendci, “seller of muslins”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tülbent (“muslin, cheesecloth”)
• → Albanian: dylben
• → Armenian: թիւլպէնտ (tʻiwlpēnt), տիւլպէնտ (tiwlpēnt), դո̈ւլբա̈նդ (dülbänd)
• → Dutch: tulband (“turban”) (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: turbante (“turban”) (see there for further descendants)
• → New Latin: tulipan, tulipa (“tulip”)
  • → French: tulipe, tulipan (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tülbent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4936
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلبند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 578
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cidaris”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلبند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2120
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tülbent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلبند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 911

Persian

Etymology 1

From دل (del, “heart”) + بند (band-), بستن (bastan). See also دل بستن (del bastan, “to love”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dil.ˈbanð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪl.bǽn̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪl.bǽn̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪl.bǽn̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪il.bǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪el.bǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪il.bǽn̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	dilband
Dari reading?	dilband
Iranian reading?	delband
Tajik reading?	dilband

Adjective

دلبند • (delband)

1. beloved

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dul.ˈbanð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊl.bǽn̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊl.bǽn̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊl.bǽn̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ul.bǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ol.bǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ul.bǽn̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	dulband
Dari reading?	dulband
Iranian reading?	dolband
Tajik reading?	dulband

Noun

دلبند • (dolband)

1. Alternative form of دولبند (dolband, “turban, diadem, hat”)