گلوله

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glew-. Cognate with Northern Kurdish girover, gilover (“round”), Sanskrit ग्लौ (glau, “lump”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡu.luː.ˈla]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊ.luː.lǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡʊ.luː.lǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡu.lu.lǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̥o.luː.lé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡu.lu.lǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	gulūla
Dari reading^?	gulūla
Iranian reading^?	golule
Tajik reading^?	gulula

Noun

گلوله • (golule) (plural گلوله‌ها (golule-hâ))

bullet
pellet, ball, spherical object

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گلوله”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “گلوله”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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