گلستان

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Persian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

گل (gol, rose) +‎ ـستان (-estân).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? gulistān
Dari reading? gulistān
Iranian reading? golestân
Tajik reading? guliston

Noun[edit]

Dari گلستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik гулистон

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
      ğanīmat dān u may xwar dar gulistān
      ki gul tā hafta-yi dīgar na-bāšad
      Know the opportunity and drink wine in the rose garden,
      For next week, the rose will be no more.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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Proper noun[edit]

Dari گلستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Гулистон

گلستان (golestân)

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

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Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian گُلِسْتَان (gulistān). By surface analysis, گل (gul, flower) +‎ ـستان (-stān)

Pronuciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

گُلِستان (gulistānm (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 India;
      we are its nightingales, and it is our flower-garden.
  2. poetry collection

Declension[edit]

Declension of گلستان
singular plural
direct گُلِستان (gulistān) گُلِستان (gulistān)
oblique گُلِستان (gulistān) گُلِستانوں (gulistānō̃)
vocative گُلِستان (gulistān) گُلِستانو (gulistānō)

References[edit]

  • گلستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.