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jungle
English
Etymology
1776, borrowed from Hindi ???? / Urdu ????? (ja?gal), from Sanskrit ????? (ja?gala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???.?(?)l/
- Rhymes: -????l
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; a tropical rainforest.
- (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- It’s a jungle out there.
- […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (Britain) A migrant camp.
- (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
- (Israel, Texas, US) A desert region.
- (golf, slang) Dense rough.
- Synonym: tiger country
- 2006, Rob Blumer, Rex Chaney, Essential golf instruction (page 167)
- Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.
- (vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.
Adjective
jungle (not comparable)
- (Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: jungle
- ? German: Dschungel
- ? Japanese: ????? (janguru)
- ? Korean: ?? (jeonggeul)
- ? Russian: ???????? (džúngli)
- ? Armenian: ??????? (?ungli)
- ? Georgian: ?????? (?ungli)
- ? Spanish: jungla
- ? Welsh: jyngl
- ? Esperanto: ?angalo
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
- (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 ???? (ja?gal), Sanskrit ????? (ja?gala, “arid, sterile, desert”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dj?n?l?/, [?d?j??l?]
Noun
jungle c (singular definite junglen, plural indefinite jungler)
- jungle
Inflection
Further reading
- jungle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle, from Hindi ???? (ja?gal) and Urdu ????? (jangal), from Sanskrit ????? (ja?gala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???.??l/
- Hyphenation: jun?gle
Noun
jungle m (plural jungles, diminutive jungletje n)
- jungle, dense tropical rainforest [from early 19th c.]
- 1825 January 8, "Uittreksels van Amerikaansche nieuwspapieren", De Curaçaosche Courant, Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 2.
- Synonym: rimboe
- 1825 January 8, "Uittreksels van Amerikaansche nieuwspapieren", De Curaçaosche Courant, Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 2.
Derived terms
- junglecommando
- junglegids
- junglemuziek
- jungletocht
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?œ??l/, (rarer, dated) /????l/
Noun
jungle f (plural jungles)
- jungle (large humid forest)
- (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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??u??le]
Noun
jungle f
- indefinite plural of jungl?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of jungl?
jungle From the web:
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- what jungle animal am i
- what jungle was tarzan in
- what jungle is in africa
- what jungler has the fastest clear
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- what jungle book character are you
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forests
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?r??sts, IPA(key): /?f???sts/
- (General American) enPR: fôr??sts, IPA(key): /?f???sts/
- (NYC) enPR: f?r??sts, IPA(key): /?f???sts/
Noun
forests
- plural of forest
Verb
forests
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forest
Anagrams
- forsets, fosters
Old French
Noun
forests f pl
- oblique/nominative plural of forest
forests From the web:
- what forests do pandas live in
- what forests do wolves live in
- what forests are in california
- what forests are affected by deforestation
- what forests are open in california
- what forests do foxes live in
- what forests are in arizona
- what forests are there
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