jungle
English
Etymology
1776, borrowed from Hindi जंगल / Urdu جنگل (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle (countable and uncountable, plural jungles)
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.
- (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 […]
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
- (UK) A migrant camp.
- (Israel, Texas, US) a desert region
- (vulgar, slang) a hairy vulva
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Spanish: jungla
- → French: jungle
- → Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)
- → Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli) (see there for further descendants)
Translations
large, undeveloped, humid forest
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colloquial: place where people behave ruthlessly
style of electronic music
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See also
Further reading
- Template:projectlink Article on Jungle (forest)
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Alemannic German
Etymology
From Jung (“boy”).
Verb
jungle
- (Uri) to give birth to a male
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 60.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle, Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal), Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”)
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle c (singular definite junglen, plural indefinite jungler)
Inflection
Declension of jungle
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | jungle | junglen | jungler | junglerne |
genitive | jungles | junglens | junglers | junglernes |
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle, from Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) and Urdu جنگل (jangal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle m (plural jungles, diminutive jungletje n)
- jungle, dense tropical rainforest [from early 19th c.]
- 1825 January 8, "Uittreksels van Amerikaansche nieuwspapieren", De Curaçaosche Courant, Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 2.
- Het eerste gevecht was een aanval op een detachement door vele duizenden der Burmesen, in den mond van een jungle, waerdoor zy gedekt waren.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: rimboe
- 1825 January 8, "Uittreksels van Amerikaansche nieuwspapieren", De Curaçaosche Courant, Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 2.
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒœ̃ɡl/, (rarer, dated) /ʒɔ̃ɡl/
Audio (France, la jungle): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (Belgium): (file)
Noun
jungle f (plural jungles)
- jungle (large humid forest)
- (derogatory) jungle (dog eat dog place, lawless area)
- Synonym: zone de non-droit
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jungle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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