ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*bulbúl body hair, feathers

PPh bulbúl body hair, feathers ⇫ ¶

WMP
Yami	boboh	body hair, feather
Itbayaten	voxbox	feather, hair of body, fine hair, down, fluff
Isneg	bulbúl	the pubes or pubic hair
Kapampangan	bulbul-in	hairy
	bulbul kilikili	hair in armpits
	bulbul	down, small feathers or hair
	ma-mulmul	defeather
Tagalog	bulból	hair in armpits, pubic hair
Hanunóo	bulbúl	body hair
Tboli	bul	body hair, fur, feather
Aklanon	búebue	hair (of animals or people); feathers (of fowl)
Palawan Batak	búlbul	hair in nose; hair; fuzz on plant stem; feather; down
Cebuano	bulbúl	pubic hair, grow pubic hairs
Binukid	bulbul	feathers
Subanen/Subanun	bombul	body hair, feathers
Subanon	bombul	body hair, feathers
Maranao	bolbol	feathers, fur, hair
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	bulvul	body hair, feathers
Mansaka	bobol	feathers, body hair; grow hair
Tiruray	bubul	all body hair except on head and face
Tonsea	budbud	feather
Mongondow	bubul	feathers, fur, body hair and pubic hair; used as a term of abuse
Bikol	bulból	pubic hair
Proto-Minahasan	bulbul	feather, fur, body hair

PPh hi-bulbul remove hair or feathers ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itbayaten	hi-voxbox-an	remove hair
Cebuano	him-bulbúl	dress fowl or birds by plucking the feathers

PPh ma-bulbul hairy ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itbayaten	ma-voxbox	hairy
Kapampangan	ma-bulbul	with abundant down

Reconstructions

PPh	bulbúl	body hair, feathers
PPh	hi-bulbul	remove hair or feathers
PPh	ma-bulbul	hairy

Note

Also Maranao bombol ‘feather, hair, fur’; bombol-aʔ ‘feathery, hairy’. This item evidently replaced PMP *bulu ‘body hair, feathers, floss on plant stems’ which survived in PPh, but was narrowed in meaning to the last of these glosses.