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 parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
   • 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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