jungle
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jungle
- /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
Rhymes with -ʌŋɡəl
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) / Urdu جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal)), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀁𑀕𑀮 (jaṃgala), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid or sterile region, desert”), from a substrate language. First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
noun jungles · jangal
- A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest. As Tarzan walked down the wild cañon beneath the brilliant African moon, the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. It’s a jungle out there.
- A tangled mess. […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
- An area where hobos camp together.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass. 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 med
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Dense rough.
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.
Similar: tiger country
- A dense mass of pubic hair.
adjective jangal
- resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle. 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rainforest, forest, selva, forestry, thicket, woodland, bush, wilderness, canopy, tangle, labyrinth, maze, wild, scrub, savage, jumble
Translations
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noun large, undeveloped, humid forest
| Español | selva, jungla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 밀림 millim, 정글 jeonggeul |
| 日本語 | 密林 mitsurin, ジャングル janguru |
| 中文 | 叢林 /丛林 cónglín, 密林 mìlín |
| हिन्दी | जंगल jaṅgal |
| Kiswahili | mwitu |
| Português | selva, floresta, jângal |
| Français | jungle, forêt vierge, forêt tropicale |
| Deutsch | Urwald, Dschungel |
| Italiano | giungla |
| Ελληνικά | ζούγκλα zoúgkla |
| Română | junglă |
| Русский | джу́нгли džúngli |
| Tiếng Việt | rừng rậm, rừng |
| العربية | أَجَمَة ʔajama, أَدْغَال ʔadḡāl, دَغْل daḡl, غابة ḡāba |
| עברית | ג׳וּנגֶל |
noun colloquial: place where people behave ruthlessly
| Português | selva |
|---|---|
| Français | jungle |
| Ελληνικά | ζούγκλα zoúgkla |
adj Translations
| Español | selvático |
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title = {jungle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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