jungle
English
Etymology
1776, via Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) and Urdu جنگل (jangal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/
- Rhymes: -ʌŋɡəl
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.
- (Britain) A migrant camp.
- (Israel, Texas, US) a desert region
- (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
Translations
large, undeveloped, humid forest
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colloquial: place where people behave ruthlessly
See also
Further reading
Jungle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Article on Jungle (forest) Jungle (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Jungle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Jung (“boy”).
References
- “jungle” in 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
- IPA(key): /djɔnɡlə/, [ˈd̥jɔŋlə]
Inflection
Declension of jungle
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | jungle | junglen | jungler | junglerne |
genitive | jungles | junglens | junglers | junglernes |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒœ̃ɡl/, (rarer, dated) /ʒɔ̃ɡl/
Audio (France, la jungle) (file) Audio (France) (file) Audio (Belgium) (file)
Further reading
- “jungle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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