# bulbul
## English

Wikispecies

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbʊlbʊl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

bulbul (plural bulbuls)
* Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
* 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.

#### Hyponyms

* bristlebill
* brownbul
* Chinese bulbul
* greenbul
* leaflove
* orange-spotted bulbul
* pale-vented bulbul
* red-whiskered bulbul
* sooty-headed bulbul
* straw-headed bulbul
* streak-eared bulbul
* yellow-vented bulbul

#### Translations
## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulbul/ [ˈbul.bul]
* Hyphenation: bul‧bul

### Noun

búlbul
* fine hair
* down (soft hair of the face when beginning to appear)
* feathers

#### Derived terms

* bulbulan
* bulbulon

#### See also

* balahibo

### Further reading

* John Kaufmann (1934) Visayan-English Dictionary‎ (overall work in Hiligaynon and English), page 82

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay bulbul, from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbʊlbʊl/
* Hyphenation: bul‧bul
* Rhymes: -bʊl, -ʊl, -i

### Noun

bulbul (plural bulbul-bulbul)
* nightingale
* bulbul

### References

* ↑ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

### Further reading

* “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.

## Isnag
### Etymology

Cognate with Cebuano bulbol.

### Noun

bulbul
* pubic hair

## Matigsalug Manobo
### Noun

bulbul
* (anatomy) hair

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bulˈbul/ [bulˈβ̞ul]
* Rhymes: -ul
* Syllabification: bul‧bul

### Noun

bulbul m (plural bulbules)
* bulbul

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Tausug
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

bulbul (Sulat Sūg spelling بُلْ٢)
* fur, hair
* feather

#### Derived terms

* bulbulan
* mabulbul

## Thao
### Noun

bulbul
* distiller's yeast; brewer's yeast
* dust