koel
koel noun: a cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Noun
koel (plural koels)
- A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
- It's a beautiful night / a koel starts up / its one weird note.1994, Dorothy Porter, The Monkey's Mask, page 49
koel meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi
koel in Tamil
- குயில்
koel in Malayalam
- koel, a cuckoo bird that has a characteristic bird call
- കുയിൽ kuyil
- koel; cuckoo
- കോകിലം kōkilaṁ
- koel
- കിങ്കിരം kiṅkiraṁ
koel in Kannada
- koel, cuckoo
- ಹರಿ hari
koel in Punjabi
- Translations
- ਕੋਇਲ koila
More languagesFewer languages
- koel in Malay
- burung tuwu
- koel in Indonesian
- burung tuhu, burung culik
- koel in Vietnamese
- tu hú
Forms of koel
| plural | koels |
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Origin of koel
From Hindi कोयल (koyal), from Sanskrit कोकिल (kokila) which is of onomatopoeic origin.
Words formed from koel
- Asian koel
- Australian koel
- black-billed koel
- eastern koel
- long-tailed koel
- Pacific koel
- western koel
Questions about koel
- What does koel mean?
- Koel means a cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
- What is koel in Tamil?
- Koel in Tamil is குயில். See Koel meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is koel?
- Koel is a noun.
- What is the plural of koel?
- The plural of koel is koels.
Words near koel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: koel (page history and authors); koel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കിങ്കിരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಹರಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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