different between jungle vs junk

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?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English junke (“old cable, rope”), probably from Old French jonc (“rush”), from Latin iuncus (“rush”). Doublet of junco and juncus.

Noun

junk (uncountable)

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
   • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7

     Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.

4. (slang) The genitalia, especially a man’s.
   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

     I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

     Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

     Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

5. (nautical) Salt beef.
   • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere

     My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

6. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
   • 1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

     Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
     An' gives a good-sized junk to all

8. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

9. Nonsense; gibberish

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trash
• Thesaurus:cameltoe
• Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw away.
2. (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Synonyms

• (throw away): bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

Etymology 2

From Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk (or reinforced), from Malay or Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong (“seagoing ship”), ultimately from Chinese.

Noun

junk (plural junks)

2. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

References

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Sappada) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• djung, jung, jungh

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Tredici Comuni) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian diunk, from Proto-Germanic *dinkwaz, variant of *dankwaz (“dark”). Compare with German dunkel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /j??k/

Adjective

junk

1. (Sylt) dark

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon jung

Adjective

junk (comparative jinja)

1. young