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گل

گل

See also: كل and کل

Laki

Noun

گل ‎(transliteration needed)

  1. flower

Mazanderani

Noun

گل ‎(gal)

  1. mouse

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Persian گل ‎(gol).

Noun

گل • ‎(gül)

  1. rose

Persian

Etymology 1

گل

From late Middle Persian gwl ‎(gul, “rose, flower”), from Old Persian *vr̥da- (compare Old Persian borrowings Old Armenian վարդ ‎(vard), Ancient Greek ῥόδον ‎(rhódon, “rose”), which yielded English rose), from Proto-Iranian *wṛda- (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀 ‎(varəδa), Sogdian ward, Parthian wʾr ‎(wār)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- ‎(“sweetbriar”) (compare Albanian hurdhe ‎(“ivy”), Latin rubus ‎(“bramble”), Old English word ‎(“thornbush”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari گل
Iranian Persian گل
Tajik гул ‎(gul)

گل • ‎(gol) ‎(plural گل‌ها ‎(gol-hâ))

  1. (archaic, literature) rose
    • 940-1020, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
      زن شیر از آن نامه شهریار
      چو رخشنده گل شد به وقت بهار      ‎
      zan-i šēr az ān nāma-i šahryār
      ču raxšanda-gul šud ba waqt-i bahār
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 1325–1389, Hafez, Divan
      صبحدم مرغ سحر با گل نوخاسته گفت
      ناز کم کن که در این باغ بسی چون تو شکفت      ‎
      subhdam murğ-i sahar bā gul-i naw-xāsta guft
      nāz kam kun ki dar īn bāğ basē čun tu šikuft
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. flower
  3. the center of watermelon which is the sweetest part
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Arabic: جُلّ ‎(jull)
  • → Azeri: gül
  • → Bashkir: гөл ‎(göl)
  • → Bengali: গুল ‎(gul)
  • → Hindustani:
  • → Kazakh: гүл ‎(gül)
  • → Kurdish:
  • → Kyrgyz: гүл ‎(gül)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: گل ‎(gül)
  • → Pashto: ګل ‎(gul)
  • → Punjabi: ਗੁਲ ‎(gul) / گل ‎(gul)
  • → Sindhi: گل ‎(gulu)
  • → Turkmen: gül
  • → Uyghur: گۈل ‎(gül)
  • → Uzbek: gul

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian TYNA / gl ‎(gil).

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari گل
Iranian Persian گل
Tajik гил ‎(gil)

گل • ‎(gel) ‎(plural گل‌ها ‎(gel-hâ))

  1. clay
  2. silt
  3. mud
  4. lair
Derived terms

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “gil”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36

Etymology 3

Borrowing from English goal.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari گل
Iranian Persian گل
Tajik гол ‎(gol)

گل • ‎(gol) ‎(plural گل‌ها ‎(gol-hâ))

  1. (sports) goal
Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit गल ‎(gala).

Noun

گل • ‎(gal) m ‎(Hindi spelling गल)

  1. throat
  2. neck
  3. hook

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit गल् ‎(gal).

Noun

گل • ‎(gal) m ‎(Hindi spelling गल)

  1. speech
  2. word
  3. saying
  4. affair

Etymology 3

From Persian گل.

Noun

گل • ‎(gil) f ‎(Hindi spelling गिल)

  1. earth, mud, silt, clay
  2. bole

Etymology 4

From Persian گل.

Noun

گل • ‎(gul) m ‎(Hindi spelling गुल)

  1. flower
  2. rose

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