bulbul

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Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊlbʊl/

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bulbul (plural bulbuls)

1. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
2. 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.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulbul (“body hair; feathers”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu. Compare Cebuano bulbol, Tagalog bulbol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulbul/ [ˈbul.bul]
• Hyphenation: bul‧bul

búlbul

1. fine hair
2. down (soft hair of the face when beginning to appear)
3. feathers

• balahibo

• John Kaufmann (1934) Visayan-English Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Hiligaynon and English), page 82

Inherited from Malay bulbul, from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊlbʊl/
• Hyphenation: bul‧bul
• Rhymes: -bʊl, -ʊl, -i

bulbul (plural bulbul-bulbul)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

• “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.

Cognate with Cebuano bulbol.

bulbul

1. pubic hair

bulbul

1. (anatomy) hair

Borrowed from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

• IPA^(key): /bulˈbul/ [bulˈβ̞ul]
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: bul‧bul

bulbul m (plural bulbules)

1. bulbul

• “bulbul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“hair”).

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /bulbul/ [bʊlˈbul]
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: bul‧bul

bulbul (Sulat Sūg spelling بُلْ٢)

1. fur, hair
2. feather

• bulbulan
• mabulbul

bulbul

1. distiller's yeast; brewer's yeast
2. dust