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 to Classical Persian گرزه (garza, “rat”).

گل (gal)

1. mouse

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

گل (gël)

1. flower

• كل

Borrowed from Classical Persian گل (gul), from late Middle Persian gwl (gul), from Old Persian *vr̥dah.

گل • (gül)

1. rose

• گلگون (gülgün)
• كلكلی (gülgüli)

• Turkish: gül
• → Armenian: կիւլ (kiwl), գյուլ (gyul)
• → Laz: გჲული (gyuli), ჯული (culi)
• → Macedonian: ѓул (ǵul)
• → Romanian: ghiul
• → Serbo-Croatian: ђул／đul
• → Albanian: gjylë

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1032
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1559

گل

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

گل • (gol) (plural گُل‌ها)

1. (archaic, literary) rose
   • 940-1020, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh

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

     zan-i šêr az ân nâma-i šahryâr
     ču raxšanda-gul šud ba vaqt-i bahâr

     (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

     classical persian: subhdam murğ-i sahar bâ gul-i naw-xâsta guft
     nâz kam kun ki dar în bâğ basê čun tu šikuft
     modern persian: subhdam morğ-e sahar bâ gol-e now-xâste goft
     nâz kam kon keh dar in bâğ basi čon to šekoft

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. flower
3. the core of a watermelon (which is the sweetest part)

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

• → Arabic: جُلّ (jull)
• → Mandaic: ࡂࡅࡋ
• → Azerbaijani: gül
• → Bashkir: гөл (göl)
• → Bengali: গুল (gul)
• → Gujarati: ગુલ (gul)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: गुल (gul)
  • Urdu: گل (gul)
• → Kashmiri: गुल (gul)
• → Kazakh: гүл (gül)
• → Khalaj: gul
• → Kyrgyz: гүл (gül)
• → Ottoman Turkish: گل (gül), كل
  • Turkish: gül
  • → Armenian: կիւլ (kiwl), գյուլ (gyul)
  • → Laz: გჲული (gyuli), ჯული (culi)
  • → Macedonian: ѓул (ǵul)
  • → Romanian: ghiul
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ђул／đul
  • → Albanian: gjylë
• → Pashto: ګل (gul)
• → Punjabi: ਗੁਲ (gul) / گل (gul)
• → Sindhi: گل (gulu)
• → Turkmen: gül
• → Uyghur: گۈل (gül)
• → Uzbek: gul

From Middle Persian TYNA / gl (gil).

گل • (gel) (plural گل‌ها (gel-hâ))

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

• → Gujarati: ગિલ (gil)

• 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)

1. (dialectal, especially Hazaragi, Kabuli) off, disabled

• گل کردن (gul kardan, “to turn off”)

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

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

1. a Punjabi surname, Gill

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

گَلّ • (gall) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗੱਲ)

1. saying

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), Ḥaidarābād, Sindhu: 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 گل (gul).

گل • (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.