The story
- Classical Persian · derived fromگُلَاب
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todaygulab jamun
Borrowed from Hindustani گلاب جامن / गुलाब जामुन (gulāb jāmun), from गुलाब (gulāb, “rosewater”), in turn from Classical Persian گُلَاب (gulāb), from گُل (gul, “rose”) + آب (āb, “water”), and जामुन (jāmun, “jambul”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.