jungle

English

Etymology

1776, borrowed from Hindi जंगल / Urdu جنگل (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
• 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. (UK) A migrant camp.
6. (Israel, Texas, US) a desert region
7. (vulgar, slang) a hairy vulva

Derived terms

• asphalt jungle
• concrete jungle
• it's a jungle out there
• jungle bear
• jungle bunny
• jungle cat
• jungle cock
• jungle fowl
• jungle juice
• jungle telegraph
• jungle warfare
• jungly
• jungular
• law of the jungle
• rubber jungle

 

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

• Albanian: xhungël (sq) f
• Arabic: أَدْغَال m (ʔadḡāl), غابة f (ḡāba)
• Armenian: ջունգլի (hy) (ǰungli)
• Assamese: হাবি (habi), জংঘল (zoṅghol)
• Asturian: xungla f
• Azerbaijani: cəngəllik, cəngəl
• Belarusian: джу́нглі f pl (džúnhli)
• Bengali: জঙ্গল (bn) (joṅgol)
• Bulgarian: джу́нгла f (džúngla)
• Burmese: ဝနာ (my) (wa.na), တော (my) (tau:) (forest)
• 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
• Estonian: džungel
• 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)
• Hausa: kurmi
• Hebrew: ג׳וּנגֶל
• Hindi: जंगल (hi) m (jaṅgal)
• Hungarian: dzsungel (hu)
• Hunsrik: Uerwald m
• Icelandic: frumskógur (is) m
• Irish: dufair f
• Italian: giungla (it) f
• Japanese: 密林 (みつりん, mitsurin), ジャングル (ja) (janguru)
• Kamasau: char
• Kazakh: джунгли (djuñli)
• Khmer: ព្រៃ (km) (prɨy), អដវី (km) (ʼaʼdaʼvii)
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• Korean: 밀림 (ko) (millim), 정글 (jeonggeul)
• Kyrgyz: жунгли (jungli)
• Lao: ພະນະ (pha na), ພົງ (phong), ດ້າວ (dāo), ດົງ (dong), ວະນາ (wa nā), ວັນ (wan), ສົນ (son), ເຫລົ່າ (lao), ໄພ (phai)
• Latvian: džungļi pl
• Lithuanian: džiunglės
• Macedonian: џунгла f (džungla)
• Malay: hutan rimba, jenggala, rimba
• Maori: waoku
• Marathi: जंगल (jaṅgal)
• Navajo: hodíłchʼil
• Nepali: जङ्गल (ne) (jaṅgal)
• Norwegian: jungel (no) m
• Pashto: ځنګل‎ m (jangál)
• 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: џу̀нгла f

  Roman: džùngla (sh) f

• Slovak: džungľa f
• Slovene: džúngla (sl) f
• Spanish: selva (es) f, jungla (es) f
• Swahili: mwitu (sw)
• Swedish: djungel (sv) c
• Tajik: ҷангал (tg) (jangal)
• Tamil: ஜங்கிள் (jaṅkiḷ), காட்டில் (ta) (kāṭṭil)
• Telugu: అడవి (te) (aḍavi)
• Thai: ป่า (th) (bpàa), ดง (th) (dong)
• Turkish: cengel (tr)
• Ukrainian: джу́нглі pl (džúnhli)
• Urdu: جنگل m (jangal)
• Uzbek: changalzor (uz)
• Vietnamese: rừng rậm, rừng (vi)

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

Further reading

• Template:projectlink Article on Jungle (forest)
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Alemannic German

Etymology

From Jung (“boy”).

Verb

jungle

1. (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.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jungle, Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal), Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”)

Pronunciation

• 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

Further reading

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʏŋ.ɡəl/
• Hyphenation: jun‧gle

Noun

jungle m (plural jungles, diminutive jungletje n)

1. 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.

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   Synonym: rimboe

Derived terms

• junglecommando
• junglegids
• junglemuziek
• jungletocht

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jungle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒœ̃ɡl/, (rarer, dated) /ʒɔ̃ɡl/

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Noun

jungle f (plural jungles)

1. jungle (large humid forest)
2. (derogatory) jungle (dog eat dog place, lawless area)

   Synonym: zone de non-droit

Derived terms

• loi de la jungle

Further reading

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