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Hudhud (English: Hoopoe, Arabic: الهدهد, Turkish: Ibibik, Persian: هدهد, Urdu: ہوپو / ہد ہد) was, according to the Quran, the messenger and envoy of the prophet Sulayman. It refers to the sagacious birds in Islam, also referred to in The Conference of the Birds, a Persian poem by Attar of Nishapur as the "king of birds". [1]
[6] [7] The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek word όρταλις, meaning "pullet" [8] or "domestic hen." [9] The common name derives from the Nahuatl verb chachalaca, meaning "to chatter." With a glottal stop at the end, chachalacah was an alternate name for the bird known as the chachalahtli.
A hoopoe was a leader of the birds in the Persian book of poems The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar) and when the birds seek a king, the hoopoe points out that the Simurgh was the king of the birds. [34] Hoopoes were thought of as thieves across much of Europe, and harbingers of war in Scandinavia. [35]
[1]: 102 In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the luan is described as being one of the three five-coloured birds, along with huang and feng bird. [4]: 44 The luan would sing while the feng would dance to accompany it. [4]: 44 The Shuowen Jiezi defines the bird as born from the sperm of Chìdì. It is red in colour with five-coloured markings.
The embellishments served a symbolic function. Two birds, made out of dough, represent the couple, and other birds represent family and friends. The entire arrangement is surrounded by a wreath of periwinkle, a symbol of love and purity. The korovai receives blessings before it is placed in the oven for baking.
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Chukar Patridge from United Arab Emirates. The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first.
In that video, a trio of friends stick their crushes one by one into a chocolate-frosted birthday cake, including K-Pop idols Beomgyu of TXT, two members of Enhyphen and actor Kim Soo-Hyun.