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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?
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purple
English
Etymology
From Middle English purple, purpel, purpur, from Old English purple, purpuren (“purple”), taken from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (porphúra, “purple fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Cognate with Dutch purper (“purple”), German Purpur (“purple; crimson”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (paurpura, “purple”), Lithuanian purpurin? (“magenta”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??(?).p?l/
- (General American) enPR: pûrp?l, IPA(key): /?p?p?l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?l
Noun
purple (plural purples)
- A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
- 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- He was born in the purple.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:
- The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple.
- 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- 2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller, page 14
- "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
- 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West, page 221
- “Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
- 2011, Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game, page 148
- She preferred to smoke some good purple, but getting high wasn't an option.
- 2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller, page 14
- (medicine) Purpura.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- A cardinalate.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank
Translations
Adjective
purple (comparative purpler or more purple, superlative purplest or most purple)
- Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
- Synonym: (literary, poetic) purpureal
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city.
- 2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 162:
- In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
- 2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 162:
- (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Imperial; regal.
- Blood-red; bloody.
- (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- (motor racing, of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Antonyms
- (having purple as its colour): nonpurple
Translations
Verb
purple (third-person singular simple present purples, present participle purpling, simple past and past participle purpled)
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- 1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games, ?ISBN, page 8:
- The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
- 1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games, ?ISBN, page 8:
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
Derived terms
See also
- purpure
- rhodopsin
- secondary color
Anagrams
- Ruppel, lupper, pulper, repulp
Middle English
Noun
purple (uncountable)
- Alternative form of purpel
Adjective
purple
- Alternative form of purpel
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