Crossword clues for bulbul
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulbul \Bul"bul\, n. [Per.] (Zo["o]l.) The Persian nightingale ( Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliid[ae]. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]
Wiktionary
n. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae, native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
WordNet
n. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
Wikipedia
Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, or bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands of the Indian Ocean There are about 130 species in around 24 genera. While some species are found in most habitats, overall African species are predominantly found in rainforest whilst rainforest species are rare in Asia, instead preferring more open areas.
The word bulbul derives from , meaning nightingale, but in English, bulbul refers to passerine birds of a different family.
Bulbul, (, born Murtuza Rza oglu Mammadov, 22 June 1897 – 26 September 1961) was a famous Azerbaijani and Soviet opera tenor, folk music performer, and one of the founders of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan.
Bulbul is a family of songbirds.
Bulbul may also refer to:
- Bulbul, Syria, a town
- Bulbul (singer) (1897-1961), Azerbaijani singer and Soviet opera tenor born Murtuza Mammadov
- Bulbul Chowdhury (1919-1954), Bengali dancer
- Bulbul Hussain (born 1972), British wheelchair rugby player
- Bulbul (film), 2013 Kannada film directed by M. D. Shridhar
Bulbul is a 2013 Indian Kannada-language film directed by M. D. Shridhar. It is the remake of the Telugu film Darling. The film stars Darshan, Ambarish and debutant Rachita Ram in lead roles. The music for the film was composed by V. Harikrishna with lyrics penned by Kaviraj.
Usage examples of "bulbul".
Fire Lotusor poor Bulbul or my Lord Zeid, whose mad whims need more gold than he earns from the Space Giver lamps?
Keeping silent as to the paltry sum he and Bulbul have been promised by the princess?
The rascal Bulbul would have had her by guilebut failed, and now would send me to bargain for some obscure reason, which, perhaps, your greater wits can understand.
The rascal Bulbul tempted her with gold, no doubt about itas greedy as he is for commissions and bribes!
Bulbul could be persuaded that if the hospice were harrassed, its patron would refuse to deal with Fire Lotus, and Bulbul would lose his bribe for securing her seed for the parthogen bottles.
I was not unwilling to marry the young prince whom Bulbul described since I thought I could make something of him.
Zeid stepped behind his brother, thus blocking out Bulbul to the glee of the other officials, who did not mind being excluded themselves as long as Bulbul had been set in his place.
There, no doubt, they tread on rugs from Teheran and are diverted by the bulbul and play upon the dulcimer and feed upon sweetmeats.
By that time the occupant of the monogamistic harem would be in dreamland, the bulbul silenced and the hour propitious for slumber.
Almeryl stretched his arm to the lattice, and drew it open, letting in the soft night wind, and the sound of the fountain and the bulbul and the beam of the stars, and versed to her in the languor of deep love: Whether we die or we live, Matters it now no more: Life has nought further to give: Love is its crown and its core.
I believe he intends to saddle her up and ride her up and down the board-walk in the Bulbul Gardens a few times every day.
There in that little plane, she imitated the bulbul of Malaysia and the morepork owl of New Zealand, and so on.
You could hear always the song of the bulbul and the lark that sounds like the dawnstar made musical.
She kept on referring to bulbuls, and asked him if he had ever seen a bull-bull.
Odours of night-flowers were abroad, filling the cool air with deliciousness, and he heard in the gardens below songs of the bulbul: it was like a dream to his soul, and he lay somewhile contemplating the rich loveliness of the scene, that showed no moving thing.