jungle

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English

Alternative forms

• jangal

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.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; a tropical rainforest.
2. (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
3. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
4. (figurative) A tangled mess.
5. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
6. (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
7. (golf, slang) Dense rough.

   Synonym: tiger country
8. (vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: jungla
• → Czech: džungle
• → Danish: jungle
• → Dutch: jungle
• → French: jungle
  • → Romanian: junglă
• → German: Dschungel, Tschungel
  • → Hungarian: dzsungel
• → Esperanto: ĝangalo
• → Italian: giungla
• → Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)
• → Korean: 정글 (jeonggeul)
• → Polish: dżungla
• → Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli)
  • → Armenian: ջունգլի (ǰungli)
  • → Georgian: ჯუნგლი (ǯungli)
• → Serbo-Croatian: džungla
• → Slovak: džungľa
• → Slovene: džungla
• → Spanish: jungla
• → Swedish: djungel
• → Ukrainian: джу́нглі (džúnhli)
• → Welsh: jyngl

Translations

Adjective

jungle (not comparable)

1. (Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

Translations

See also

• rainforest

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”).

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.

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

Further reading

• jungle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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.]

   Synonym: rimboe

Derived terms

• junglecommando
• junglegids
• junglemuziek
• jungletocht

Descendants

• Petjo: djangel, djungel

French

Etymology

English jungle.

Pronunciation

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

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

• chat de jungle
• loi de la jungle

Descendants

• → Romanian: junglă

Further reading

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒuŋɡle]

Noun

jungle f

1. inflection of junglă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular