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turban

The same Persian word as tulip: dulband, a head-wrap, became Ottoman tülbend and reached English through Italian turbante and French turbant; Dutch kept the Turkish l in tulband, and Turkish still uses tülbent for gauze.

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From Ottoman Turkish to Dutch

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