بلبل

See also: پلپل and bulbul

Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic reduplicated

Noun

بُلْبُل • (bulbul) m (plural بَلَابِل (balābil))

1. nightingale; bulbul (Muscicapidae fam. et spp., Pycnonotidae fam. et spp. vel sim.)
2. a spinning top
3. a plumb bob

Declension

Declension of noun بُلْبُل (bulbul)

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

• Maltese: bilbla, belbul

References

• Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 110–111

Baluchi

Noun

بلبل • (bulbul)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

Burushaski

Etymology

From Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bulbul]

Noun

بلبل (bulbul) (plural بلبلشݸ)

1. nightingale

References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎^[2].

Ottoman Turkish

بلبل

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul, “nightingale”).

Noun

بلبل • (bülbül)

1. 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], 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

1. nightingale

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]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊl.bʊ́l]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bʊl.bʊ́l]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bul.búl̥]

• (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

Noun

Dari	بلبل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	булбул

بلبل • (bolbol)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

Synonyms

• هزاردستان (hazâr-dastân)
• هزارآوا (hezâr-âvâ)
• شباهنگ (šabâhang)
• عندلیب ('andalib)
• زندواف (zandvâf)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bülbül
• → Baluchi: بلبل
• → Bashkir: былбыл (bılbıl)
• → Burushaski: bulbul
• → Georgian: ბულბული (bulbuli)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बुलबुल (bulbul)

  Urdu: بلبل (bulbul)

• → Middle Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul), պլպուլ (plpul)
  • → Armenian: բլբուլ (blbul)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بلبل (bülbül)
  • Turkish: bülbül
  • → Albanian: bilbil
  • → Greek: μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli)
  • → Ladino: bilbil
  • → Northern Kurdish: bilbil
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bulbul
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬੁਲਬੁਲ (bulbul)

  Shahmukhi script: بلبل (bulbul)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).

Noun

بلبل • (bulbul) f (Hindi spelling बुलबुल)

1. nightingale
2. bulbul

Declension

Declension of بلبل
	singular	plural
direct	بلبل (bulbul)	بلبلیں (bulbulẽ)
oblique	بلبل (bulbul)	بلبلوں (bulbulõ)
vocative	بلبل (bulbul)	بلبلو (bulbulo)