بلبل
Arabic
editEtymology
editNoun
editبُلْبُل • (bulbul) m (plural بَلَابِل (balābil))
- nightingale; bulbul (Muscicapidae fam. et spp., Pycnonotidae fam. et spp. vel sim.)
- a spinning top
- a plumb bob
Declension
editDeclension of noun بُلْبُل (bulbul)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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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
editReferences
edit- Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 110–111
Baluchi
editNoun
editبلبل • (bulbul)
Burushaski
editEtymology
editFrom Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editبلبل (bulbul) (plural بلبلشݸ)
References
editSadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project[2].
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul, “nightingale”).
Noun
editبلبل • (bülbül)
- nightingale, a common songbird in the genus Luscinia
- Synonym: عندلیب (ʿandelib)
Derived terms
edit- بوقلوجه بلبل (bokluca bülbül, “wren”)
- چالی بلبلی (çalı bülbülü, “crested wren”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: bülbül
- → Albanian: bilbil
- → Greek: μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli)
- → Ladino: bilbil
- → Northern Kurdish: bilbil
- → Serbo-Croatian: bulbul
Further reading
edit- 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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul).
Noun
editبلبل • (bulbul) m
Persian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *bal-bal- (“babbling, unclear speech”), or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [bul.ˈbul]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bol.ból̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bul.búl]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | bulbul |
Dari reading? | bulbul |
Iranian reading? | bolbol |
Tajik reading? | bulbul |
- Rhymes: -ol
Noun
editDari | بلبل |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | булбул |
بلبل • (bolbol)
Synonyms
editDescendants
editUrdu
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul), from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʊl.bʊl/
- Rhymes: -ʊl
- Hyphenation: بُل‧بُل
Noun
editبُلْبُل • (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
editDeclension of بلبل | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | بُلْبُل (bulbul) | بُلْبُلیں (bulbulẽ) | ||||||
oblique | بُلْبُل (bulbul) | بُلْبُلوں (bulbulõ) | ||||||
vocative | بُلْبُل (bulbul) | بُلْبُلو (bulbulo) |
Further reading
edit- “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, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بلبل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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