jungle

English

Etymology

1776, via Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) and Urdu جنگل (jangal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

Pronunciation

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌŋɡəl

Noun

jungle (countable and uncountable, plural jungles)

1. A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.
2. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

   It’s a jungle out there.

   • Thomas Carlyle

     […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

3. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
4. (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
5. (U.K.) a migrant camp.
6. (Israel; Texas, U.S.) a desert region

Translations

large, undeveloped, humid forest

• Arabic: أَدْغَال m (ʔadḡāl)
• Armenian: ջունգլի (hy) (ǰungli)
• Asturian: xungla f
• Bengali: জঙ্গল (bn) (jônggôl)
• Catalan: jungla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叢林／丛林 (zh) (cónglín), 丛林 (zh) (cónglín), 密林 (zh) (mìlín)

• Chiquitano: nüunrrü
• Czech: džungle (cs) f
• Danish: jungle (da) c
• Dutch: oerwoud (nl), jungle (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĝangalo
• Faroese: frumskógur m, villskógur m
• Finnish: viidakko (fi)
• French: jungle (fr) f, forêt vierge (fr) f, forêt tropicale f
• Galician: xungla (gl) f
• Georgian: ჯუნგლი (ǯungli)
• German: Urwald (de) m, Dschungel (de) m or f or n
• Greek: ζούγκλα (el) f (zoúgkla)
• Gujarati: જંગલ (jaṅgal)
• Hebrew: ג'ונגל
• Hindi: जंगल (hi) m (jaṅgal)
• Hungarian: dzsungel (hu)
• Icelandic: frumskógur (is) m
• Irish: dufair f
• Italian: giungla (it) f
• Japanese: 密林 (みつりん, mitsurin), ジャングル (janguru)
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• Kamasau: char
• Malay: hutan rimba, jenggala, rimba
• Maori: waoku
• Marathi: जंगल (jaṅgal)
• Navajo: hodíłchʼil
• Nepali: जङ्गल (ne) (jaṅgala)
• Norwegian: jungel (no) m
• Persian: جنگل (fa) (jangal)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: stik
• Polish: dżungla (pl)
• Portuguese: selva (pt) f, floresta (pt) f, jângal (pt) m
• Quechua: yunka
• Romanian: junglă (ro) f
• Russian: джу́нгли (ru) f pl (džúngli)
• Sanskrit: जङ्गल (sa) (jaṅgala)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џунгла f

  Roman: džungla (sh) f

• Slovak: džungľa f
• Slovene: džúngla (sl) f
• Spanish: selva (es) f, jungla (es) f
• Swahili: mwitu (sw)
• Swedish: djungel (sv) c
• Tamil: ஜங்கிள் (jaṅkiḷ), காட்டில் (ta) (kāṭṭil)
• Telugu: అడవి (te) (aḍavi)
• Ukrainian: джу́нглі pl (džúnhli)
• Urdu: جنگل m (jangal)

colloquial: place where people behave ruthlessly

• Finnish: viidakko (fi)
• French: jungle (fr) f
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• Greek: ζούγκλα (el) f (zoúgkla)
• Portuguese: selva (pt) f

style of electronic music

• Finnish: jungle (fi), junkka
• French: jungle (fr) f
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• Irish: ceol dufaire m

See also

• rainforest

External links

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Danish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /djɔnɡlə/, [ˈd̥jɔŋlə]

Noun

jungle c (singular definite junglen, plural indefinite jungler)

1. jungle

Inflection

Declension of jungle

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jungle	junglen	jungler	junglerne
genitive	jungles	junglens	junglers	junglernes

External links

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French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ʒœ̃ɡl/, (rarer, dated) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ʒɔ̃ɡl/
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Noun

jungle f (plural jungles)

1. jungle (all senses)

External links

• “jungle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.