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Lale

Tulpe

Geschlecht: Mädchen
Herkunft: Natur
Aussprache: LAH-leh

Die Geschichte des Namens

Lale — the tulip, a flower that bloomed on the slopes of Anatolia and Iran for four millennia before Europe noticed it. As a name it captures what is precious and yet small and brief.

Etymologie

Wurzel: lale · Persian / Kurmancî

Lale is the tulip — a flower native to Anatolia, the Caucasus and the Iranian plateau long before its 17th-century European fashion. The Persian word is the source of Turkish lale, Kurdish lale, and (via Turkish) of European tulip itself.

Namensfamilie

Gul · cognate — rose — the other classical flower name

Sprachliche Parallelen

Laleh Persiska — Samma
Lale Turkiska — Samma

Natur
Blume
klassisch

Aktualisiert: 2026-05-02