A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck
A turban is a long piece of cloth that is wound round the head. It is worn by Sikh men and by some Hindu and Muslim men. a long piece of cloth that you wind tightly round your head, worn by men in parts of North Africa and Southern Asia and sometimes by women as a fashion (turbante, from tülbend, from dulband)
a headdress worn chiefly in countries of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Asia especially by Muslims and made of a cap around which is wound a long cloth; a headdress resembling a Muslim turban, specifically a woman's close-fitting hat without a brim
large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
[ 't&r-b&n ] (noun.) 1588. From Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Turkish tülbent, from Persian دلبند dolband, also the root of tulip.