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gil, s.f. Earth, mud, clay, bole:—gil-ě-armanī, s.f. Armenian bole;—red earth, ruddle:—gil-andāzī, s.f. An embankment; a causeway;—cost or repairs of an embankment, etc.:—gil-ě-ḥikmat, s.f. Lute, cement, mud cement (used to close the mouth of a vessel):—gil dar gil karnā, lit.'To throw earth on earth,' to throw heaps of earth immediately on a corpse (whereas, the usual custom is, after depositing the corpse in the grave, to lay planks over it, and then fill up the remaining cavity with eartl
Origin: Persian