bungalow
See also: Bungalow
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo, “Bengali”), referring to the Bengali-style house. Compare Hindi बंगला (baṅglā) and Bengali বাংলা (bangla).
Noun
bungalow (plural bungalows)
- A small house or cottage usually having a single story
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur:
- 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.
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- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah
Translations
small house or cottage
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one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah
Finnish
Declension
| Inflection of bungalow (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| instructive | — | bungalowein | |
| abessive | bungalowitta | bungaloweitta | |
| comitative | — | bungaloweineen | |
French
Pronunciation
- (France, Belgium, Switzerland) IPA(key): /bœ̃.ɡa.lo/
Audio (France) (file) - (Quebec) IPA(key): /bɔŋ.ɡa.lo/
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Further reading
- “bungalow” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bunɡaˈlo/, [bũŋɡaˈlo]
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