turban
French, noun\tyʁ.bɑ̃\
turban is spelled T-U-R-B-A-N (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Turban is a French masculine noun meaning “turban (male headdress)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coiffure d’homme usitée chez les Orientaux et faite d’une longue bande d’étoffe, qui est roulée et entrelacée…”.
What does turban mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineturban (male headdress)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Coiffure d’homme usitée chez les Orientaux et faite d’une longue bande d’étoffe, qui est roulée et entrelacée autour de la tête. 2. Coiffure de femme de forme semblable.] 3. Personnage qui porte cette coiffure.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of turban
- turbans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce turban?
- \tyʁ.bɑ̃\
- [tyʁbɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to turban
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is turban in French?
turban appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).