बुलबुल

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

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bʊl.bʊl/

बुलबुल • (bulbul) f (Urdu spelling بُلْبُل)

1. nightingale; bulbul
   • 1904, Muhammad Iqbal, Tarānā-e-Hind :

     सारे जहाँ से अच्छा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा।
     हम बुलबुलें हैं इसकी, यह गुलिस्ताँ हमारा॥

     sāre jahā̃ se acchā, hindostā̃ hamārā.
     ham bulbulẽ ha͠i iskī, yah gulistā̃ hamārā.

     Better than the whole world, is our India;
     we are its nightingales, and it is our flower-garden.

• “बुलबुल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बुलबुल”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3538
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बुलबुल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 742
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “बुलबुल”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 529

Borrowed from Hindi बुलबुल (bulbul).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪ɐ.bu.l̪ɐ/

बुलबुल • (bulabula) stem, m (New Sanskrit)

1. nightingale; bulbul
   • 1993, Pūjālāla, Bālanāṭakāni‎, page 71:

     अस्मिता — अपि सन्ति बुलबुलाः अत्र?
     नियामकः — तेऽपि सन्ति। शृणु, शृणु बुलबुलगानं पेरुकवाटिकायाम्।

     asmitā — api santi bulabulāḥ atra?
     niyāmakaḥ — teʼpi santi. śṛṇu, śṛṇu bulabulagānaṃ perukavāṭikāyām.

     Asmitā — Are there nightingales here too?
     Niyāmaka — They are there too. Listen, listen to the nightingale-song in Perukavāṭikā.