jungle
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
Pronunciation
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.
- 1984, Barry Ellem, Doing Time, page 25:
- The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.
- 2005, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction:
- But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!
- (figurative) A tangled mess.
- 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire:
- Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
- 2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, page 291:
- In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.
- (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.
Derived terms
- asphalt jungle
- beat like a jungle drum
- concrete jungle
- dark jungle glory
- hobo jungle
- it's a jungle out there
- jungle babbler
- jungle bear
- jungle bendy
- jungle boot
- jungle bunny
- jungle cat
- jungle cock
- jungle crow
- jungle drums
- jungle fever
- jungle fowl
- jungle glory
- jungle green
- jungle gym
- jungle hen
- jungle juice
- jungle justice
- jungle mouth
- jungle nymph
- jungle primary
- jungler
- jungle raj
- jungle rice
- jungle rot
- jungle telegraph
- jungly
- jungular
- law of the jungle
- Meinong's jungle
- rubber jungle
- vajungle
- you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey
Descendants
- → Catalan: jungla
- → Czech: džungle
- → Danish: jungle
- → Dutch: jungle
- → French: jungle
- → Romanian: junglă
- → German: Dschungel, Tschungel
- → Hungarian: dzsungel
- → Esperanto: ĝangalo
- → Italian: giungla
- → Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)
- → Korean: 정글 (jeonggeul)
- → Polish: dżungla
- → Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli)
- → Serbo-Croatian: džungla
- → Slovak: džungľa
- → Slovene: džungla
- → Spanish: jungla
- → Swedish: djungel
- → Ukrainian: джу́нглі (džúnhli)
- → Welsh: jyngl
Translations
large, undeveloped, humid forest
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colloquial: place where people behave ruthlessly
Adjective
jungle (not comparable)
- (Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
- 1939 January 8, The Tribune, Manila, page 13, column 2:
- She gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 9:
- Somewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jungle beats.
See also
Further reading
Jungle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Article on Jungle (forest)- Jungle (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Jungle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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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.
Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle, Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal), Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle c (singular definite junglen, plural indefinite jungler)
Inflection
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | jungle | junglen | jungler | junglerne |
| genitive | jungles | junglens | junglers | junglernes |
Declension of jungle
Further reading
- jungle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
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Etymology
Borrowed from English jungle, from Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) and Urdu جنگل (jangal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle m (plural jungles, diminutive jungletje n)
- jungle, dense tropical rainforest [from early 19th c.]
- Synonym: rimboe
- 1825 January 8, “Uittreksels van Amerikaansche nieuwspapieren”, in De Curaçaosche Courant, volume XIII, number 1, page 2:
- Het eerste gevecht was een aanval op een detachement door vele duizenden der Burmesen, in den mond van een jungle, waerdoor zy gedekt waren.
- The first battle was an attack on a detachment by many thousands of the Burmese, in the mouth of a jungle, which covered them.
Derived terms
- junglecommando
- junglegids
- junglemuziek
- jungletocht
Descendants
- Petjo: djangel, djungel
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jungle f (plural jungles)
- jungle (large humid forest)
- (derogatory) jungle (dog eat dog place, lawless area)
- Synonym: zone de non-droit
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: junglă
Further reading
- “jungle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Pronunciation
Noun
jungle f
- inflection of junglă:
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