English [ edit ] A nightingale Pronunciation [ edit ] Etymology 1 [ edit ] From Middle English nyghtyngale nightingale niȝtingale n ) of nyghtgale nightegale Old English nihtegala nihtegale ( “ nightingale; night-raven ” , literally “ night-singer ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā ( “ nightingale ” ) , equivalent to night gale Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal ( “ nightingale ” ) , Dutch nachtegaal ( “ nightingale ” ) , Low German Nachtigall ( “ nightingale ” ) , German Nachtigall ( “ nightingale ” ) , Danish nattergal ( “ thrush nightingale ” ) , Swedish näktergal ( “ nightingale ” ) , Icelandic næturgali ( “ nightingale ” ) .
nightingale (plural nightingales
A Eurasian and African songbird , Luscinia megarhynchos Muscicapidae , famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale .
Nightingales have been spotted in this coppice.
You sing like a nightingale , sport!
1936 F.J. Thwaites , chapter XXII, in The Redemption 1940 , page 222 :The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale , high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] bird
Albanian: bilbil (sq) m
Arabic: عَنْدَلِيب m ( ʕandalīb ) , بلبل f ( bulbul )
Egyptian Arabic: بلبل m ( bulbul )
Gulf Arabic: بلبل m ( bulbul )
Aramaic:
Armenian: սոխակ (hy) ( soxak )
Asturian: ruiseñor m reiseñor m
Azerbaijani: bülbül (az)
Baluchi: بلبل ( bulbul )
Bashkir: һандуғас ( handuğas ) , ( poetic ) былбыл ( bılbıl )
Basque: urretxindor
Belarusian: салаве́й m ( salavjéj )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: eostig (br) m
Bulgarian: сла́вей (bg) m ( slávej )
Burmese: ညတေးသီငှက် ( nya.te:sihngak )
Catalan: rossinyol (ca) m
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵓⴷⴷⵔ ( asuddr )
Chechen: цӏир-цӏир ( cʼir-cʼir )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 夜鶯 ／ 夜莺 (zh) ( yèyīng )
Chuvash: шӑпчӑк ( šăpčăk )
Crimean Tatar: bülbül
Czech: slavík (cs) m
Danish: sydlig nattergal c
Dutch: nachtegaal (nl) m
Esperanto: najtingalo
Estonian: ööbik (et) , (lőunaööbik
Faroese: suðurnáttargali
Finnish: etelänsatakieli (fi)
French: rossignol philomèle (fr) m rossignol (fr) m Old French: russignol m
Friulian: rusignűl ? usignűl ?
Galician: reiseñor (gl) m rousinol (gl) m
Georgian: ბულბული (ka) ( bulbuli )
German: Nachtigall (de) f
Greek: αηδόνι (el) n ( aïdóni ) , μπιρμπίλι (el) n ( birmpíli ) ( colloquial )
Ancient: ἀηδών f ( aēdṓn )
Gujarati: બુલબુલ n ( bulbul )
Hebrew: זָמִיר (he) m ( zamir )
Hindi: बुलबुल (hi) f ( bulbul ) , अंदलीब (hi) f ( andlīb ) , हजारदास्ताँ (hi) m ( hajārdāstā̃ )
Hungarian: csalogány (hu) , fülemüle (hu)
Icelandic: næturgali (is) m
Ido: naktigalo (io)
Indonesian: bulbul (id)
Ingrian: sisava
Irish: filiméala m
Italian: usignolo (it) m
Japanese: サヨナキドリ ( sayonakidori )
Kazakh: бұлбұл ( būlbūl )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Komi-Zyrian: колипкай ( koľipkaj )
Korean: 나이팅게일 (ko) ( naitinggeil )
Kumyk: бюлбюл ( bülbül )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bilbil (ku) m
Kyrgyz: булбул (ky) ( bulbul )
Ladin: roscignol ?
Lao: ນົກໂລຊີໂຍນ ( nok lō sī nyōn )
Latgalian: laksteigola f
Latin: luscinia f
Latvian: lakstīgala (lv) f
Lezgi: билбил ( bilbil )
Ligurian: roscigneu m
Lithuanian: lakštingala f
Low German: Nachtegall f
Luxembourgish: Nuechtegailchen (lb) f
Macedonian: сла́веј m ( slávej ) , биљбиљ m ( biljbilj )
Malay: bulbul
Maltese: rożinjol m rużinjol m
Mari:
Eastern Mari: шӱшпык ( šüšpyk )
Western Mari: шӹжвӹк ( šÿžvÿk )
Mingrelian: მაფშალია ( mapšalia )
Moksha: цёфкс ( ćofks )
Mongolian: гургалдай (mn) ( gurgaldaj )
Norman: rossîngno m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sørnattergal m
Nynorsk: sørnattergal m
Occitan: rossinhòl (oc) m
Old English: nihtegale f
Ottoman Turkish: بلبل ( bülbül ) , عندلیب ( ʿandelib )
Persian: بلبل (fa) ( bolbol ) , هزاردستان (fa) ( hazârdastân ) , شباهنگ (fa) ( šabâhang )
Polish: słowik rdzawy (pl) m słowik (pl) m
Portuguese: rouxinol (pt) m
Romani: chiriklo-ratiako m chirikli-ratiaki f
Romanian: privighetoare (ro) f
Romansch: luschaina ?
Russian: солове́й (ru) m ( solovéj )
Sami:
Northern Sami: lulličuohtegielaš
Sardinian: arrissiuolu ? arrassanajolu ? passirillanti ?
Scottish Gaelic: spideag f beul-binn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̑лӣ сла̀вӯј m сла̀вӯј m
Roman: mȃlī slàvūj (sh) m slàvūj (sh) m
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: slávik (sk) m
Slovene: slavec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: syłojk m syłojik m syłojašk m
Upper Sorbian: sołobik m
Spanish: ruiseñor (es) m
Svan: მჷლე̄თილ ( məlētil ) , ხა̈ლიდ ( xälid )
Swedish: sydnäktergal (sv) c
Tagalog: ruwisenyor
Tajik: булбул ( bulbul ) , андалеб ( andaleb )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: былбыл (tt) ( bılbıl ) , сандугач (tt) ( sanduğaç )
Thai: นกไนติงเกล ( nók nai-dting-gayn )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: bülbül (tr)
Turkmen: bilbil (tk)
Udmurt: уӵы ( učy )
Ukrainian: солове́йко m ( solovéjko ) , солове́й m ( solovéj )
Urdu: بلبل f ( bulbul )
Uyghur: بۇلبۇل ( bulbul )
Uzbek: bulbul (uz)
Vietnamese: dạ oanh
Volapük: galit (vo)
Welsh: eos f eosiaid f pl
West Frisian: geal c
Yiddish: סאָלאָוויי m ( solovey )
Zazaki: bılbıl
Etymology 2 [ edit ] Named after Florence Nightingale .
nightingale (plural nightingales
A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves , formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed . Anagrams [ edit ] Middle English [ edit ] nightingale
Alternative form of nyghtyngale 
