گلابی

Persian
گلابی (gulabe, golabi) hanging from a pear tree

Etymology

Unknown; possibly cognate with Pashto وېروه‎ (werwa, “pear”), perhaps from Proto-Iranian *wr̥bíš, ultimately of origin.

Pronunciation
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /ɡulɔbe/

Noun

گلابی • (golâbi) (plural گلابی‌ها‎ (golâbi-hâ))

  1. (Iran) pear
    Synonym: (Afghanistan) ناک‎ (nâk)

Descendants
  • → Kermanic: golābī, golōwī, gülüvī, golōvī
  • → Swahili: gulabi
  • → Talysh: گلابی‎ (golâbi), گلاوی‎ (golâvi)

Urdu
گلابی (gulabī) roses in a garden

Etymology

From گلاب‎ (gulab "rosewater") +‎ ـی‎ (-ī suffix forming nouns or adjectives) literally "rosewatery" or "rosewater-like". The word and suffix are derived from Classical Persian, the term itself is specifically of Indo-Persianate tradition, with the rest of Persianate world using صورتى (surati "pink") an Arabic borrowing.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʊ.lɑː.biː/

Adjective

گلابی • (gulābī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling गुलाबी)

  1. pink-colored
  2. rosy

See also
Colors in Urdu · رنگ‎ (raṅg) (layout · text)
     سفید‎ (safed), ابیض‎ (abyaz)      سرمئی‎ (sarmaī), خاکستری‎ (xākistarī), دھوسر‎ (dhūsar)      کالا‎ (kālā), سیاہ‎ (siyāh), اسود‎ (aswad)
             سرخ‎ (surx), لال‎ (lāl), قرمزی‎ (qarmazī), احمر‎ (ahmar)              مالٹائی‎ (mālṭāī), نارنجی‎ (nāranjī), نارنگی‎ (nārangī); بھورا‎ (bhūrā), بادامی‎ (bādāmī), خاکی‎ (xākī), مٹیالا‎ (maṭiālā)              پیلا‎ (pīlā), زرد‎ (zard), اصفر‎ (asfar), بسنتی‎ (basantī)
             پستہ‎ (pistah), انگوری‎ (aṅgūrī), دھانی‎ (dhānī)              سبز‎ (sabz), ہرا‎ (harā)             
             فیروزی‎ (ferozī)              آسمانی‎ (āsmānī), نیلگوں‎ (nīlgū̃), لاجوردی‎ (lājvardī), آبی‎ (ābī), آبگوں‎ (ābgū̃)              نیلا‎ (nīlā), ازرق‎ (azraq)
             نیل‎ (nīl), بنفشی‎ (banafśī), بنفش‎ (banafś)              جامنی‎ (jāmnī), اودا‎ (ūdā), ارغوانی‎ (arġawānī), بیگنی‎ (beganī), بینگنی‎ (benganī), بینجنی‎ (benjanī)              گلابی (gulābī), پیازی‎ (pīāzī)
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