jungle

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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, countable, uncountable) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
3. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A tangled mess.
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) An area where hobos camp together.
6. (uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
7. (countable, slang, uncountable) Dense rough.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A dense mass of pubic hair.

Adj

resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

Έννοιες

ζούγκλα

ζούγγλα

Συνώνυμα

forest

woods

wood

🪵

thicket

wilderness

bush

thick forest

plantation

hobo camp

primeval forest

hill

grassy place

dense forest

virgin forest

the woods

scrub

vegetation

boondocks

wild

woodland

boondock

tropical rain forest

clump of bushes

close thicket

the bush

weeds

bushland

copse

desert

🏜️

east

jungles

marsh

mountain

⛰️

outback

overgrown

rainforest

rain forest

swamp

tangle

thickets

tree

🌳

Μεταφράσεις

jungle

Dschungel

jungla

selva

giungla

selva

jungla

oerwoud

Urwald

jungle

manigua

rimboe

floresta

selva

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.