گلستان

From گل (gol, “rose”) +‎ ـستان (-estân).

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

گلستان • (golestân)

1. rose garden

   Synonym: گلزار (golzâr)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 162”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     غنیمت دان و می خور در گلستان
     که گل تا هفتهٔ دیگر نباشد

     ġanīmat dān u may xwar dar gulistān
     ki gul tā hafta-yi dīgar nabāšad

     Know the opportunity and drink wine in the rose garden,
     For next week, the rose will be no more.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

گلستان • (golestân)

1. the Gulistan of Sa'di, a renowned thirteenth-century prosimetrum
2. Golestan (a province of Iran)

• گُلِسْتَاں (gulistā̃)

Borrowed from Classical Persian گُلِسْتَان (gulistān). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi گلستان (glstan /⁠gulistān⁠/).^[1] By surface analysis, گُل (gul, “flower”) +‎ ـِسْتَان (-istān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʊ.lɪs.t̪ɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: گُ‧لِس‧تان

گُلِسْتان • (gulistān) m (Hindi spelling गुलिस्तान)

1. rose garden, flower garden, garden, flower-bed
   • 1904, Muhammad Iqbal, Tarānā-e-Hind:

     سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہمارا
     ہم بلبلیں ہیں اس کی، یہ گلستاں ہمارا

     sāre jahā̃ se acchā, hindostā̃ hamārā.
     ham bulbulẽ ha͠i iskī, yah gulistā̃ hamārā.

     Better than the whole world, is our Hindustan;
     We are its nightingales, and it is our flower-garden.

2. poetry collection

• “گلستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “گلستان”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]