بلبل
Arabic
Etymology
Onomatopoeic in origin, with its stem being reduplicated.
Noun
بُلْبُل • (bulbul) m (plural بَلَابِل (balābil))
- nightingale; bulbul (Muscicapidae fam. et spp., Pycnonotidae fam. et spp. vel sim.)
- a spinning top
- a plumb bob
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | بُلْبُل bulbul |
الْبُلْبُل al-bulbul |
بُلْبُل bulbul |
| nominative | بُلْبُلٌ bulbulun |
الْبُلْبُلُ al-bulbulu |
بُلْبُلُ bulbulu |
| accusative | بُلْبُلًا bulbulan |
الْبُلْبُلَ al-bulbula |
بُلْبُلَ bulbula |
| genitive | بُلْبُلٍ bulbulin |
الْبُلْبُلِ al-bulbuli |
بُلْبُلِ bulbuli |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | بُلْبُلَيْن bulbulayn |
الْبُلْبُلَيْن al-bulbulayn |
بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay |
| nominative | بُلْبُلَانِ bulbulāni |
الْبُلْبُلَانِ al-bulbulāni |
بُلْبُلَا bulbulā |
| accusative | بُلْبُلَيْنِ bulbulayni |
الْبُلْبُلَيْنِ al-bulbulayni |
بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay |
| genitive | بُلْبُلَيْنِ bulbulayni |
الْبُلْبُلَيْنِ al-bulbulayni |
بُلْبُلَيْ bulbulay |
| plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | بَلَابِل balābil |
الْبَلَابِل al-balābil |
بَلَابِل balābil |
| nominative | بَلَابِلُ balābilu |
الْبَلَابِلُ al-balābilu |
بَلَابِلُ balābilu |
| accusative | بَلَابِلَ balābila |
الْبَلَابِلَ al-balābila |
بَلَابِلَ balābila |
| genitive | بَلَابِلَ balābila |
الْبَلَابِلِ al-balābili |
بَلَابِلِ balābili |
Descendants
References
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, , pages 110–111
Baluchi
Noun
بلبل • (bulbul)
Burushaski
Etymology
From Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bulbul]
Noun
بلبل (bulbul) (plural بلبلشݸ)
References
Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project[2].
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul, “nightingale”).
Noun
بلبل • (bülbül)
- nightingale, a common songbird in the genus Luscinia
- Synonym: عندلیب (ʿandelib)
Derived terms
- بوقلوجه بلبل (bokluca bülbül, “wren”)
- چالی بلبلی (çalı bülbülü, “crested wren”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bülbül
- → Albanian: bilbil
- → Greek: μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli)
- → Ladino: bilbil
- → Northern Kurdish: bilbil
- → Serbo-Croatian: bulbul
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bülbül”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 721
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بلبل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 275
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Luscinia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[4], Vienna, column 983
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلبل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 873
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bülbül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلبل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 380
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).
Noun
بلبل • (bulbul) m
Persian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bal-bal- (“babbling, unclear speech”), or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /bul.ˈbul/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bʊl.bʊ́l]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bol.ból̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bul.búl]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | bulbul |
| Dari reading? | bulbul |
| Iranian reading? | bolbol |
| Tajik reading? | bulbul |
- Rhymes: -ol
Noun
| Dari | بلبل |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | булбул |
بلبل • (bolbol)
Synonyms
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: bülbül
- → Baluchi: بلبل
- → Bashkir: былбыл (bılbıl)
- → Bengali: বুলবুল (bulbul)
- → Burushaski: bulbul
- → Georgian: ბულბული (bulbuli)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: бұлбұл (būlbūl)
- → Kyrgyz: булбул (bulbul)
- → Middle Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul), պլպուլ (plpul)
- → Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul)
- → Ottoman Turkish: بلبل (bülbül)
- → Punjabi:
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul), from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʊl.bʊl/
- Rhymes: -ʊl
- Hyphenation: بُل‧بُل
Noun
بُلْبُل • (bulbul) f (Hindi spelling बुलबुल)
- 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.
- sāre jahā̃ se acchā hindostā̃ hamārā
- سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہَمارا
- (figuratively) beloved
Declension
| 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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بلبل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.