English
A nightingale
Pronunciation
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 )
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
Derived terms
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
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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 )
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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 )
A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves , formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed .
Middle English
Noun
nightingale
Alternative form of nyghtyngale