jungle

1776, borrowed from Hindi जंगल / Urdu جنگل‎ (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡəl

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.

   • 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!

4. (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 156109991:

     […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

5. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
6. (UK) A migrant camp.
7. (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.

8. (Israel, Texas, US) A desert region.
9. (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.

10. (vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.

• → French: jungle
  • → Romanian: junglă
• → German: Dschungel
• → Italian: giungla
• → Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)
• → Korean: 정글 (jeonggeul)
• → Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli)
  • → Armenian: ջունգլի (ǰungli)
  • → Georgian: ჯუნგლი (ǯungli)
• → Spanish: jungla
• → Welsh: jyngl
• → Esperanto: ĝangalo

jungle (not comparable)

1. (Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
   • 1939 January 8, The Tribune, 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.

• rainforest

• Jungle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Article on Jungle (forest)
• Jungle (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jungle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

From Jung (“boy”).

jungle

1. (Uri) to give birth to a male

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 60.

Borrowed from English jungle, Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal), Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

• IPA^(key): /djɔnɡlə/, [ˈd̥jɔŋlə]

jungle c (singular definite junglen, plural indefinite jungler)

1. jungle

• jungle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from English jungle, from Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) and Urdu جنگل‎ (jangal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʏŋ.ɡəl/

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• Hyphenation: jun‧gle

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.

     Het eerste gevecht was een aanval op een detachement door vele duizenden der Burmesen, in den mond van een jungle, waerdoor zy gedekt waren.

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   Synonym: rimboe

• junglecommando
• junglegids
• junglemuziek
• jungletocht

• Petjo: djangel, djungel

Borrowed from English jungle.

• IPA^(key): /ʒœ̃ɡl/, (rarer, dated) /ʒɔ̃ɡl/

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jungle f (plural jungles)

1. jungle (large humid forest)
2. (derogatory) jungle (dog eat dog place, lawless area)

   Synonym: zone de non-droit

• chat de jungle
• loi de la jungle

• → Romanian: junglă

• “jungle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒuŋɡle]

jungle f

1. inflection of junglă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular