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prettygoodwordbulbul (BOOL-bool) - n., Any of several passerine songbirds (family Pycnonotidae) native to tropical Africa and Asia.
In Persian, the word just means nightingale, and was first encountered (in the 1770s) in English in translations of Arabic poetry (that tradition having taken over the word from Persian poetry). The word was then applied to birds that are unrelated to the nightingales. Oops.
---L.
In Persian, the word just means nightingale, and was first encountered (in the 1770s) in English in translations of Arabic poetry (that tradition having taken over the word from Persian poetry). The word was then applied to birds that are unrelated to the nightingales. Oops.
---L.
