بلبل

See also: پلپل

Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic reduplicated

Noun

بُلْبُل • (bulbul) m (plural بَلَابِل (balābil))

1. nightingale; bulbul (Muscicapidae fam. et spp., Pycnonotidae fam. et spp. vel sim.)
2. a spinning top

Declension

Declension of noun بُلْبُل (bulbul)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بُلْبُل bulbul	الْبُلْبُل al-bulbul	بُلْبُل bulbul
Nominative	بُلْبُلٌ bulbulun	الْبُلْبُلُ al-bulbulu	بُلْبُلُ bulbulu
Accusative	بُلْبُلًا bulbulan	الْبُلْبُلَ al-bulbula	بُلْبُلَ bulbula
Genitive	بُلْبُلٍ bulbulin	الْبُلْبُلِ al-bulbuli	بُلْبُلِ bulbuli
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بُلْبُلَيْن bulbulayn	الْبُلْبُلَيْن al-bulbulayn	بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay
Nominative	بُلْبُلَانِ bulbulāni	الْبُلْبُلَانِ al-bulbulāni	بُلْبُلَا bulbulā
Accusative	بُلْبُلَيْنِ bulbulayni	الْبُلْبُلَيْنِ al-bulbulayni	بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay
Genitive	بُلْبُلَيْنِ bulbulayni	الْبُلْبُلَيْنِ al-bulbulayni	بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَلَابِل balābil	الْبَلَابِل al-balābil	بَلَابِل balābil
Nominative	بَلَابِلُ balābilu	الْبَلَابِلُ al-balābilu	بَلَابِلُ balābilu
Accusative	بَلَابِلَ balābila	الْبَلَابِلَ al-balābila	بَلَابِلَ balābila
Genitive	بَلَابِلَ balābila	الْبَلَابِلِ al-balābili	بَلَابِلِ balābili

Descendants

• Maltese: bilbla, belbul

References

• Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 110–111

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Baluchi

Noun

بلبل • (bulbul)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بلبل (bolbol).

Noun

بلبل • (bülbül)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

Descendants

• Turkish: bülbül
• → Albanian: bilbil
• → Greek: μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli)
• → Ladino: bilbil
• → Northern Kurdish: bilbil
• → Serbo-Croatian: bulbul

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Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bal-bal- (“babbling, unclear speech”), or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	b
Dari reading?	b
Iranian reading?	b
Tajik reading?	b

Noun

Dari	بلبل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	булбул

بلبل • (bolbol)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

Synonyms

• هزاردستان (hazâr-dastân)
• هزارآوا (hezâr-âvâ)
• شباهنگ (šabâhang)
• عندلیب ('andalib)
• زندواف (zandvâf)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bülbül
• → Baluchi: بلبل
• → Bashkir: былбыл (bılbıl)
• → Burushaski: bulbul
• → Georgian: ბულბული (bulbuli)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बुलबुल (bulbul)

  Urdu: بلبل (bulbul)

• → Middle Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul), պլպուլ (plpul)
  • → Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بلبل (bülbül)
  • Turkish: bülbül
  • → Albanian: bilbil
  • → Greek: μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli)
  • → Ladino: bilbil
  • → Northern Kurdish: bilbil
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bulbul

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بلبل (bolbol).

Noun

بلبل • (bulbul) f (Hindi spelling बुलबुल)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul