Made in Arabic
julep
الجُلّاب
A rose-water sprinkler of silver and gilt, made in India, probably Lucknow; its Persian name gulāb-pāsh means just that, and guests were sprinkled with rose water on arrival. Persian gulāb, "rose water", entered Arabic as julāb, a sweet drink, then Medieval Latin and French, and English as julep, best known today in the mint julep.
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- a silver-gilt rose-water sprinkler, India, late 18th century
The path between languagesgulāb → julāb → julapium → julep
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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