گل

• یل (yel), ل (el)

Cognate with Southern Kurdish گل (gil), Southwestern Fars گل, Persian گله.

گل (gel)

1. A suffix forming the plural of an animate noun.

   کرگل مین هونه بین

   korgel meīne howne bīn

   The boys were in the house

گُل (gul) (definite accusative گُلوُ, plural گُللار)

1. Arabic spelling of gul (“flower”)

گل (gil)

1. flower

Cognate with Classical Persian گرزه (garza, “rat”).

گل (gal)

1. mouse

From Persian گل (gol). Displaced native Old Mazanderani ول (*vel).

گل (gël)

1. flower

From late Middle Persian gwl (gul, “rose, flower”), from Old Persian *vr̥dah.

• Rhymes: -ol

گل • (gul / gol) (plural گل‌ها (gul-hā / gol-hâ), Tajik spelling гул)

1. flower
2. (archaic, literary) rose

   Synonyms: گل سرخ (gol-e sorx), رز (roz)

   • 940-1020, فردوسی [firdawsī], شهنامه [šahnāma]:

     زن شیر از آن نامه شهریار
     چو رخشنده گل شد به وقت بهار

     zan-i šēr az ān nāma-yi šahryār
     čū raxšanda-gul šud ba waqt-i bahār

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • 1325-1389, حافظ [hāfiz], دیوان حافظ [dēwān-i hāfiz]:

     صبحدم مرغ چمن با گل نوخاسته گفت
     ناز کم کن که در این باغ بسی چون تو شکفت

     subhdam murġ-i čaman bā gul-i nawxāsta guft
     nāz kam kun ki dar īn bāġ basē čūn tū šukuft

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. the core of a watermelon (the sweetest part)

From Middle Persian TYNA / gl (gil).

گل • (gil / gel) (plural گل‌ها (gil-hā / gel-hâ), Tajik spelling гил)

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

• Tajik: гил (gil)
• → Armenian: (dialectal) գիլ (gil)
• → Azerbaijani: gil
• → Gujarati: ગિલ (gil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كیل (gil, kil)
  • Turkish: kil

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

Borrowed from English goal.

گل • (gol) (plural گل‌ها (gol-hâ))

1. (chiefly Iran, sports, soccer) goal

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

گل • (gul) (Dari, colloquial)

1. (Hazaragi, Kabuli) off, disabled

• گل کردن (gul kardan, “to turn off”)

Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀕𑀮𑀳𑀸 (galahā) (Kalsi), from Sanskrit गर्हा (garhā).

گَلّ • (gall) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗੱਲ)

1. topic; matter (of a conversation)

   Synonym: بات (bāt)

2. saying; quote (ie. the recollection of something said, as opposed to a renowned or popular saying)

2=gall

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮 (gilla), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑁆𑀭𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮 (*grilla).

گِلّ • (gill) m or f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗਿੱਲ)

1. a Punjabi surname, Gill

Borrowed from Classical Persian گل (gul).

• IPA^(key): [ɡʊlʊ]

گُلُ • (gulu) m (Devanagari गुलु)

1. flower
2. tree
3. plant

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “گُلُ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

From Sanskrit गल (gala).

گل • (gal) m (Hindi spelling गल)

1. throat
2. neck
3. hook

From Sanskrit गल् (gal).

گل • (gal) m (Hindi spelling गल)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian گل (gil).

گل • (gil) f (Hindi spelling गिल)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian گُل (gul).

گُل • (gul) m (Hindi spelling गुल)

1. flower

   باغوں میں گُل کِھلے ہَیں۔

   bāġõ mẽ gul khile ha͠i.

   Flowers have bloomed in the gardens.

2. rose

   گُلِ گُلْزار ― gul-i gulzār ― Rose from the flowerbed

• گلبدن (gulbadan, “having a rosy body”)
• گلدان (guldān, “flowerpot; vase”)
• گلدستہ (guldastā, “bouquet”)
• گلگون (gulgūn, “rose-colored; pink”)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “گل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.