Bulbul meaning

bo͝ol'bo͝ol'
Any of various passerine, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Pycnonotidae, most of which have grayish or brownish plumage.
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A songbird often mentioned in Persian poetry and thought to be a nightingale.
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A songbird referred to in Persian poetry, perhaps a nightingale.
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Any of a family (Pycnonotidae) of small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa.
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Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae, native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
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Origin of bulbul

  • Persian from Arabic
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Persian بلبل, from Arabic بلبل.
    From Wiktionary

Bulbul Sentence Examples

  • Besides these excavated monuments, the Stadion; the enceinte of fortifications erected by Lysimachus, which runs from the tower called the "Prison of St Paul" and right along the crests of the Bulbul (Prion) and Panajir hills; the round monument miscalled the "Tomb of St Luke"; and the Opistholeprian gymnasium near the Magnesian gate, are worthy of attention.

  • laughing dove and Garden Bulbul.

  • Each group has its distinct harrier-eagle, red-cheeked paroquet, oriole, sunbird and bulbul.

  • Pale chanting goshawk, Lesser striped swallow, Red-collared widow, Black-eyed or Common bulbul ).

  • spectacled bulbul Easy to see, usually in pairs.

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