bungalow
See also: Bungalow
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi बंगला (baṅglā, “Bengali”), referring to the Bengali-style house. Compare Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo) and Bengali বাংলা (baṅla).
Noun
bungalow (plural bungalows)
- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur[1]:
- Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah
Translations
single-storey house
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one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah
References
- “bungalow”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “bungalow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Finnish
Noun
bungalow
- bungalow (one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah)
Declension
Inflection of bungalow (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bungalow | bungalowit | |
genitive | bungalowin | bungalowien | |
partitive | bungalowia | bungaloweja | |
illative | bungalowiin | bungaloweihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bungalow | bungalowit | |
accusative | nom. | bungalow | bungalowit |
gen. | bungalowin | ||
genitive | bungalowin | bungalowien | |
partitive | bungalowia | bungaloweja | |
inessive | bungalowissa | bungaloweissa | |
elative | bungalowista | bungaloweista | |
illative | bungalowiin | bungaloweihin | |
adessive | bungalowilla | bungaloweilla | |
ablative | bungalowilta | bungaloweilta | |
allative | bungalowille | bungaloweille | |
essive | bungalowina | bungaloweina | |
translative | bungalowiksi | bungaloweiksi | |
abessive | bungalowitta | bungaloweitta | |
instructive | — | bungalowein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
bungalow m (plural bungalows)
Further reading
- “bungalow”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English bungalow.
Pronunciation
Noun
bungalow m (plural bungalows)
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