Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Safavid-style turban
Persian (Farsi) translation:
دستار/کلاه دوره صفوی
English term
Safavid-style turban
The best I can do in English is “Safavid-style turban”.
In many ways, with their ridged appearance, these turbans are similar to this kind of tea cosy (no disrespect intended):
http://knitshearbliss.typepad.com/knit_shear_bliss/images/20...
Almost everyone in the serial wears a turban in this style, including MollaSadra (as a young man) himself.
What is the Persian name for such turbans?
All the best, and many thanks,
Simon
| 5 +5 | دستار/کلاه دوره صفوی |
Farzad Akmali
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Reza Ebrahimi
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| 5 +1 | سربند به سبک دوران صفوی |
Salman Rostami
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Proposed translations
Commited to quality, Commited to you!
Native in: Persian (Farsi) 
Works in: English to Persian (Farsi), Persian (Farsi) to English, Persian (Farsi), and 3 more.
دستار/کلاه دوره صفوی
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دستار به سبک صفوی or simply دستار صفویان
وي هميشه لباس ايراني مي پوشيد و دستاري به سبک صفويان بر سر مي نهاد
http://www.rasekhoon.net/Article/Show-30343.aspx
درصورت تحقیقات بیشتر می توان طبقه بندی پیشنهادی این جا را اصلاح نمود. عمده ترین استناد علوم ظاهری مینیاتور مکتب تبریز عبارت است از: اول، لباس ها که در آن نشان خاص دستار صفویان دیده می شود؛
http://www.hawzah.net/Hawzah/Articles/Articles.aspx?Language...
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Wikipedia:
Turban
Not to be confused with Türban, the semantically changed Turkish word for Hijab
The turban (from Persian , dulband via the Turkish ) is a headdress consisting of a long scarf-like single piece of cloth wound round the head or an inner hat.
The long strip of cloth was soaked in water at a well, and then wrapped around the head. The layers of wet cloth kept wet all day in the hot dry air.
Contemporary turbans come in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
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http://dic.mjsoft.ir/Default.aspx?Lang=FaToFa&Word=دستار
برآهيخت خفتان جنگ از تنش
کفن کرد دستار و پيراهنش .
فردوسي .
چون تو نشود هرکه به شغل تو زند دست
زن مرد نگردد به نکو بستن دستار.
فرخي .
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kolya
: Thank you so much Mr. Akmali.
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Many Thanks!
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Ramak Milani
: agree- I perfer دستار better.
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Many Thanks!
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Ryan Emami
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Many thanks!
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Hadi Sobhanifar
: دستارis much better.
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Armineh Johannes
: armineh joahnnes
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Many Thanks!
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United States
Medical Engineer, PhD in TR, Tech. + DTP
Native in: Persian (Farsi) 
Works in: English to Persian (Farsi), German to Persian (Farsi), English to Dari, and 15 more.
عمامه/کلاه مخصوص صفویان
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Mohammad Emami
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kolya
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Ryan Emami
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Canada
Quality is not an accident!
Native in: Persian (Farsi)
Works in: English to Persian (Farsi), Persian (Farsi) to English
سربند به سبک دوران صفوی
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The origin of Turban is the Persian word دوربند which means a cloth people fastened around their heads (دور سر), it later changed to دولبند for ease of pronunciation.
Discussion
You may use different verbs in this case for "to put on a turban":
دستار به سر نهادن
دستار بر سر نهادن
and more informal and frequently used ones:
دستار بستن
دستار پوشیدن
"to be wearing a turban" : دستار به سر داشتن
دستار پوشیدن
Thank you so much Kolya for your endorsement!
Dowr band, and the other one Dowl band.
1-http://78.136.16.170/Museum/detail.asp?artifactid=1103
2-http://www.spongobongo.com/EKOM46de.htm
3-http://books.google.com/books?id=XUyajzkDJ50C&pg=PA79-IA2&lp... ( page 86)
4-http://www.zarrinkafsch-bahman.org/14.html
5-http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/AABR003294.html
6-http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=147607
7-http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehdPHohyzg4/TFPPAe1HiRI/AAAAAAAAAx...
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f49/hijab-chic-34351-27.htm...
it was designed to distinguish between the classes, especially of the Religious, Royal and the regular people in a society. Just like the Japanese society in 16 century, every society had a way of clearing classes from each other. In England, and whole Europe....
But the link mentioned above has nothing to do with Safavid dynasty in anyway, except which I doubt very much in a derogatory way