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Bakhtiari
Etymology
Cognate with Southern Kurdish گل ( gil ) , Southwestern Fars گل , Persian گله .
Suffix
گل (gel )
A suffix forming the plural of an animate noun.
کرگل مین هونه بین korgel meīne howne bīn The boys were in the house
Khalaj
Noun
گُل (gul ) (definite accusative گُلوُ , plural گُللار )
Arabic spelling of gul ( “ flower ” )
Declension
Laki
Noun
گل (gil )
flower
Mazanderani
Etymology 1
Cognate to Classical Persian گرزه ( garza , “ rat ” ) .
Noun
گل (gal )
mouse
Etymology 2
From Persian گل ( gol ) . Displaced native Old Mazanderani ول ( *vel ) .
Noun
گل (gël )
flower
Persian
Etymology 1
گل
From late Middle Persian gwl ( gul , “ rose, flower ” ) , from Old Persian *vr̥dah .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
gul
Dari reading?
gul
Iranian reading?
gol
Tajik reading?
gul
Noun
Dari
گُل
Iranian Persian
Tajik
гул
گل • (gol ) (plural گُلها )
flower
( archaic , literary ) rose
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)
1325-1389 , حافظ [hāfiz ], دیوان حافظ [dēwān-i hāfiz ]:صبحدم مرغ سحر با گل نوخاسته گفت ناز کم کن که در این باغ بسی چون تو شکفت subhdam murğ-i čaman bā gul-i nawxāsta guft nāz kam kun ki dar īn bāğ basē čūn tū šukuft (please add an English translation of this quotation)
the core of a watermelon (which is the sweetest part)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
→ Arabic: جُلّ ( jull )
→ Azerbaijani: gül
→ Bashkir: гөл ( göl )
→ Bengali: গুল ( gul )
→ Chagatai:
> Uyghur: گۈل ( gül ) ( inherited )
> Uzbek: gul ( inherited )
→ Gilaki: گل ( gul )
→ Gujarati: ગુલ ( gul )
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: गुल ( gul )
Urdu: گل ( gul )
→ Ishkashimi: gul
→ Kashmiri: गुल ( gul )
→ Kazakh: гүл ( gül )
→ Khalaj: gul
→ Kyrgyz: гүл ( gül )
→ Mandaic: ࡂࡅࡋ
→ Northern Kurdish: gul
→ Ottoman Turkish: گل ( gül )
→ Parachi: ګل ( gul )
→ Pashto: ګل ( gul )
→ Punjabi: ਗੁਲ ( gul ) / گل ( gul )
→ Sanglechi: gɛl
→ Sarikoli: gəl
→ Shahmirzadi: ( gel )
→ Shughni: гул ( gul )
→ Sindhi: گل ( gulu )
→ Turkmen: gül
→ Wakhi: gul , gыl
→ Yazghulami: г̊ол ( g̊ol )
→ Yidgha: گل ( gul )
Etymology 2
From Middle Persian TYNA / gl ( gil ) .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
gil
Dari reading?
gil
Iranian reading?
gel
Tajik reading?
gil
Noun
Dari
گل
Iranian Persian
Tajik
гил
گل • (gel ) (plural گلها ( gel-hâ ) )
clay
silt
mud
lair
Derived terms
Descendants
References
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971 ) “gil”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary , London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English goal .
Pronunciation
Readings
Iranian reading?
gol
Noun
Dari
گول
Iranian Persian
گل
Tajik
гол
گل • (gol ) (plural گلها ( gol-hâ ) )
( chiefly Iran , sports , soccer ) goal
Derived terms
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Pronunciation
Readings
Dari reading?
gul
Adjective
گل • (gul ) ( Dari , colloquial )
( Hazaragi , Kabuli ) off , disabled
Derived terms
گل کردن ( gul kardan , “ to turn off ” )
Punjabi
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀕𑀮𑀳𑀸 ( galahā ) ( Kalsi ) , from Sanskrit गर्हा ( garhā ) .
Noun
گَلّ • (gall ) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗੱਲ )
saying ; conversation ( ie. things to say )
Synonym: بات ( bāt )
matter
Declension
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮 ( gilla ) , from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑁆𑀭𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮 ( *grilla ) .
Proper noun
گِلّ • (gill ) m or f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗਿੱਲ )
a Punjabi surname , Gill
Further reading
More information
Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002 ) “گل ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
“ਗਿੱਲ ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary , Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
“ਗੱਲ ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary , Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985 ) “*grilla ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages , London: Oxford University Press, page 235
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985 ) “garhā ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages , London: Oxford University Press, page 218
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian گل ( gul ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
گُلُ • (gulu ) m (Devanagari गुलु )
flower
tree
plant
References
Khānu, Balocu (1960 –1988 ) “گُلُ ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
Urdu
Etymology 1
From Sanskrit गल ( gala ) .
Noun
گل • (gal ) m (Hindi spelling गल )
throat
neck
hook
Etymology 2
From Sanskrit गल् ( gal ) .
Noun
گل • (gal ) m (Hindi spelling गल )
speech
word
saying
affair
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Classical Persian گل ( gil ) .
Noun
گل • (gil ) f (Hindi spelling गिल )
earth , mud , silt , clay
bole
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Classical Persian گُل ( gul ) .
Noun
گُل • (gul ) m (Hindi spelling गुल )
flower
باغوں میں گُل کِھلے ہَیں۔ bāġõ mẽ gul khile ha͠i. Flowers have bloomed in the gardens.
rose
گُلِ گُلْزار ― gul-i gulzār ― Rose from the flowerbed
Declension
Declension of گل
singular
plural
direct
گل ( gul )
گل ( gul )
oblique
گل ( gul )
گلوں ( gulõ )
vocative
گل ( gul )
گلو ( gulo )
Derived terms
References
Platts, John T. (1884 ) “گل ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English , London: W. H. Allen & Co.