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bulbul en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbʊlbʊl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

Meanings

1. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
2. Any of the bulbul species of the Middle East, popular in poetry; sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
   • The infant buds, impatient to look around them, rend their green garments and unfold their eyes; while every tree, on which the bulbul ſings, flutters with joy on the wings of their thouſand leaves. 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
   • ‘Of course, if you want something really Persian and passionate, with red wine and bulbuls in it,’ I went on to suggest; but she grabbed the book from me. 1904, Saki, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:

Forms

Hyponyms

pale-vented bulbul · Chinese bulbul · bristlebill · red-whiskered bulbul · sooty-headed bulbul · streak-eared bulbul · leaflove · greenbul · straw-headed bulbul · orange-spotted bulbul · yellow-vented bulbul · brownbul

Translations (30)

or ବୁଲବୁଲ୍ (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · it bulbul (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · arz بلبل (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · jv cucak (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ps بلبله (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · fa شباهنگ (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · cmn 鵯 /鹎 (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · hi हजारदास्ताँ (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · he בולבול (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · hi बुलबुल (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · de Bülbül (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · fr bulbul (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · es bulbul (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · id merbah (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ja 鵯 (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · hi अंदलीब (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · af tiptolle (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · nl buulbuul (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · fa هزاردستان (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · bo ཀ་ལ་པིང་ཀ (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · lt biulbiulis (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · fi bulbuli (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ar بُلْبُل (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · id bulbul (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ks بُلبُل (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ru бюльбюль (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · pl bilbil (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · id cucak (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · ur بلبل (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) · fa بلبل (bird of the family Pycnonotidae)