بلبل

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See also: پلپل and bulbul

Arabic

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Etymology

Onomatopoeic reduplicated

Noun

بُلْبُل (bulbulm (plural بَلَابِل (balābil))

  1. nightingale; bulbul (Muscicapidae fam. et spp., Pycnonotidae fam. et spp. vel sim.)
  2. a spinning top
  3. a plumb bob

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: bilbla, belbul

References

Baluchi

Noun

بلبل (bulbul)

  1. nightingale
  2. bulbul

Burushaski

Etymology

From Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).

Pronunciation

Noun

بلبل (bulbul) (plural بلبلشݸ)

  1. nightingale

References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project.

Ottoman Turkish

بلبل

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul, nightingale).

Noun

بلبل (bülbül)

  1. nightingale, a common songbird in the genus Luscinia
    Synonym: عندلیب (ʿandelib)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).

Noun

بلبل (bulbulm

  1. nightingale

Persian

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bal-bal- (babbling, unclear speech), or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? bulbul
Dari reading? bulbul
Iranian reading? bolbol
Tajik reading? bulbul

Noun

Dari بلبل
Iranian Persian
Tajik булбул

بلبل (bolbol)

  1. nightingale
  2. bulbul

Synonyms

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

بُلْبُل (bulbulf (Hindi spelling बुलबुल)

  1. nightingale; bulbul
    • 1904, Muhammad Iqbal, Tarānā-e-Hind :
      سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہَمارا
      ہم بلبلیں ہیں اس کی، یہ گلستاں ہمارا
      sāre jahā̃ se acchā hindostā̃ hamārā
      ham bulbulẽ ha͠i is kī, ye gulistā̃ hamārā
      Better than the whole world, is our Hindustan;
      We are its nightingales, and it is our flower-garden.
  2. (figuratively) beloved

Declension

    Declension of بلبل
singular plural
direct بُلْبُل (bulbul) بُلْبُلیں (bulbulẽ)
oblique بُلْبُل (bulbul) بُلْبُلوں (bulbulõ)
vocative بُلْبُل (bulbul) بُلْبُلو (bulbulo)

Further reading

  • بلبل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • بلبل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بلبل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.