bulbul

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.

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, first-person possessive bulbulku, second-person possessive bulbulmu, third-person possessive bulbulnya)

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.

Akin to 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

bulbul

1. fur, hair
2. feather

• bulbulan
• mabulbul

bulbul

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