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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbʊlbʊl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]bulbul (plural bulbuls)
- Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
- Any of the bulbul species of the Middle East, popular in poetry; sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1904, Saki, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
- ‘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.
Hyponyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]bird of the family Pycnonotidae
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay bulbul, from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul (plural bulbul-bulbul, first-person possessive bulbulku, second-person possessive bulbulmu, third-person possessive bulbulnya)
References
[edit]- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading
[edit]- “bulbul” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Isnag
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul
Matigsalug Manobo
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul m (plural bulbules)
Further reading
[edit]- “bulbul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tausug
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“hair”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul
Derived terms
[edit]Thao
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulbul
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