different between jungle vs forrest

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)

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.

   It’s a jungle out there.

   • […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

4. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
5. (Britain) A migrant camp.
6. (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
7. (Israel, Texas, US) A desert region.
8. (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.

9. (vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.

Adjective

jungle (not comparable)

1. (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

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 ???? (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)

1. 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)

1. 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

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)

1. jungle (large humid forest)
2. (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

1. indefinite plural of jungl?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of jungl?

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vorderst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r?st/, [?f????sd?]

Adjective

forrest

1. (attributive) foremost, front
2. (adverbial) in front, first

Inflection

Antonyms

• bagerst, bagest

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German vorderst, compare with German vorderste.

Adjective

forrest (neuter singular forrest, definite singular and plural forreste)

1. foremost (furthest forward), frontmost

References

• “forrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.