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Adding to this interesting example of gulāb (literally - rose/flower water). Gulāb found a contrasting incarnation in Hindi / Urdu julāb जुलाब 💩 (purgative medicine) via Arabic. Basically a flower extract used for treating stomach disorder, and works by increasing bowel movement
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Persian gol/gul was borrowed into many Indo-Aryan languages as 'flower', e.g., literary Urdu. The compound gol/gul ('rose') + āb ('water'), originally, 'rose-water', is now the default word for 'rose' in Hindustani (gulāb), Bengali (golap), Kashmiri (gulāb) etc. twitter.com/peterlinpl/sta…
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