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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Per.]

(Zool.)

The Persian nightingale (

Pycnonotus jocosus

). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family

Timaliidæ

. The green bulbuls belong to the

Chloropsis

and allied genera.

[Written also

buhlbuhl

See also: bülbül

bulbul ‎(plural bulbuls)

Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae, native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
- 1904, ‘Saki’, "Reginald's Rubaiyat", 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.

bird of the family Pycnonotidae

Javanese: cucak (jv)
Persian: بلبل (fa) ‎(bolbol), هزاردستان (fa) ‎(hezârdastân), شباهنگ (fa) ‎(šabâhang)
Polish: bilbil (pl) m

bulbul m ‎(plural bulbules)