different between jungla vs selva

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??u?.?l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??u?.?la/

Noun

jungla f (plural jungles)

1. jungle

Further reading

• “jungla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??u??la]

Noun

jungla f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of jungl?

Spanish

Etymology

From English jungle, from Hindi ???? (ja?gal) and Urdu ????? (jangal), from Sanskrit ????? (ja?gala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xun?la/, [?x??.?la]

Noun

jungla f (plural junglas)

1. jungle

   Synonym: selva

Further reading

• “jungla” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese selva, from Latin silva. Doublet of silva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?lv?/

Noun

selva (plural selvas)

1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Slave, Slavé, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, slave, vales, valse, veals

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin silva.

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. rainforest

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Portuguese selva, Occitan selva, Spanish selva, Italian selva.

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. jungle, rainforest

Related terms

• salvatge

Italian

Etymology

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sel.va/
• Hyphenation: sél?va

Noun

selva f (plural selve)

1. forest, wood
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto I, p. 5, vv. 1-3:

     Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
     mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
     ché la diritta via era smarrita.

     Midway upon the journey of our life
     I found myself within a forest dark,
     for the straight-forward pathway had been lost.

2. (by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland
   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII:

     [...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,
     per uscirmi di braccia come il giorno
     che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.

     [...] and may she not be changed to green woodland,
     issuing from my arms, as on the day
     when Apollo pursued her down here on earth.

3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:

     Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,
     ma passavam la selva tuttavia,
     la selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.

     We ceased not to advance because he spake,
     but still were passing onward through the forest,
     the forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.

Synonyms

• bosco
• foresta

Derived terms

• selvicoltore
• selvicultore

Related terms

Anagrams

• salve, slave, svela, valse

Latvian

Noun

selva f (4th declension)

1. selva

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s??.v?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?w.va/, /?s?w.v?/
• Hyphenation: sel?va

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

1. jungle

2. woods, forest

   Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus:floresta

3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest

Quotations

• 1844: O apertado revolver das armas formava uma selva de ferros em volta dos dois capitães inimigos, através da qual debalde o conde de Septum buscara multas vezes abrir caminho para ferir Teodomiro, até que finalmente, galgando por cima de um árabe derribado, pudera vibrar um golpe. — Alexandre Herculano, "Eurico, o Presbítero".

Derived terms

• selvagem
• selvageria
• silvestre
• silvícola
• silvicultura

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?selba/, [?sel.??a]

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

1. (forestry) forest or jungle, wood, chiefly a rainforest

Derived terms

Related terms

• salvaje
• selvático
• silvestre
• silvicultura

See also

• bosque
• jungla

Anagrams

Further reading

• “selva” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.