bilbil
See also: bılbıl
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلبل (bülbül), from Persian بلبل (bolbol), from Arabic بلبل (bulbul), of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Greek μπιρμπίλι (birmpíli).
Noun edit
bilbil m
- nightingale (bird)
Hypernyms edit
- peshku bilbil (“boarfish”) (Capros aper)
References edit
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 14, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bil‧bil
Noun edit
bilbil
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian بلبل (bolbol).
Noun edit
bilbil m
Sakizaya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Austronesian *biʀbiʀ.
Noun edit
bilbil
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bilbíl (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜒᜎ᜔)
- (anatomy, colloquial) love handle; excess fat on one's lower abdomen
- (anatomy) double chin
- (medicine) edema; dropsy