nightingale

See also: Nightingale

English

A nightingale

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-Germanic *nahtigalǭ (“nightingale”), equivalent to night +‎ gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

1. A European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, of the family Muscicapidae.
   • Mary Shelley, chapter 5 in the first part of The Last Man

     The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales

Synonyms

• philomel

Derived terms

• common nightingale
• Dutch nightingale
• mock nightingale
• nightingale floor
• thrush nightingale

 

Translations

bird

• Albanian: bilbil (sq) m
• Arabic: عَنْدَلِيب m (ʕandalīb), بلبل f (bulbul)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلبل m (bulbul)

  Gulf Arabic: بلبل m (bulbul)

• 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 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), 夜莺 (zh) (yèyīng)

• Chuvash: шӑпчӑк (šăpčăk)
• Crimean Tatar: bülbül
• Czech: slavík (cs) m
• Danish: sydlig nattergal c
• Dutch: nachtegaal (nl) m
• Eastern Mari:
• Esperanto: najtingalo (eo)
• Estonian: ööbik (et), (lőunaööbik)
• Faroese: suðurnáttargali
• Finnish: satakieli (fi), etelänsatakieli (fi)
• French: rossignol philomèle (fr) m, rossignol (fr) m

  Old French: russignol m

• Friulian: rusignűl ?, usignűl ?
• Galician: reiseñor m
• Georgian: ბულბული (ka) (bulbuli)
• German: Nachtigall (de) f
• Greek: αηδόνι (el) n (aïdóni), μπιρμπίλι (el) n (birmpíli) (colloquial)

  Ancient: ἀηδών f (aēdṓn)

• Hebrew: זָמִיר (he) m (zamir)
• Hindi: बुलबुल (hi) f (bulbul)
• Hungarian: csalogány (hu), fülemüle (hu)
• Icelandic: næturgali (is) m
• Ido: naktigalo (io)
• Indonesian: bulbul (id)
• 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
• Korean: 나이팅게일 (ko) (naitinggeil)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: булбул (ky) (bulbul)
• Ladin: roscignol ?
• Lao: ນົກໂລຊີໂຍນ (nok lō sī nyōn)
• Latgalian: laksteigola f
• Latin: luscinia f
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• 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)
• Malay: bulbul
• Maltese: rożinjol ?
• Moksha: цёфкс (ćofks)
• Mongolian: гургалдай (mn) (gurgaldaj)
• Norman: rossîngno m
• Northern Sami: lulličuohtegielaš
• Norwegian: sørnattergal ?
• Occitan: rossinhòl (oc) m
• Old English: nihtegale f
• 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)
• 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
• Swedish: sydnäktergal (sv) ?
• 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)
• Ukrainian: солове́йко m (solovéjko), солове́й m (solovéj)
• Urdu: بلبل f (bulbul)
• Uyghur: بۇلبۇل (bulbul)
• Uzbek: bulbul (uz)
• Vietnamese: họa mi (vi)
• Volapük: galit (vo)
• Welsh: eos f, eosiaid f pl
• West Frisian: geal c
• Yiddish: סאָלאָוויי m (solovey)
• Zazaki: bilbil

Etymology 2

Named after Florence Nightingale.

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

1. A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

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Middle English

Noun

nightingale

1. Alternative form of nyghtyngale