गुलाब gulāb

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919	On this site
c	ch
ś	śh
ṣ	ṣh
r̥	r̥i

A few reading pointers:

ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

گلاب · fa · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

A rose.

Usual translation

rose

Origin of the definition

P گلاب gul-āb (gul+āb, qq.v.), s.m. Rose-water; (in India, also) a (red) rose; — adj. Rose-scented ( = gulābī): — gulāb-pāsh, s.f. A bottle for sprinkling rose-water, a rose-water bottle: — gulāb-pāshī, s.f. The sprinkling of rose-water; — gulāb-pāshī karnā, To sprinkle rose-water: — gulāb-pānī, or gulāb-jal, s.m. Rose-water: — gulāb-jāman, s.f. The rose-apple, Eugenia jambos; — a kind of sweetmeat (which has the shape of the fruit jāman).

गुलाब gulāba gula:b (nm) rose; ~जल rose water; ~जामुन a delicious sweetmeat preparation; ~पाश a vase for sprinkling rose-water.