Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.

    Urwald, Dschungel

    джу́нглиdžúngli

    джу́нгліdžúnhli

  2. (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, 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.

    It’s a jungle out there.

    a place where hoboes camp

  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)A dense mass of pubic hair.

Examples

226 sentences
  1. Wild animals live in the jungle.

    ruДикие животные живут в джунглях.

    deWilde Tiere leben im Dschungel.

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  2. Tom got lost in the jungle.

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  3. Don't go into the jungle alone.

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  4. We'll get through the jungle somehow.

    deWir werden schon irgendwie durch den Dschungel kommen.

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  5. We chopped our way through the jungle.

    deWir bahnten uns einen Weg durch den Dschungel.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large, undeveloped, humid forest:
Русский
By meaning 1
large, undeveloped, humid forest:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
large, undeveloped, humid forest:

Origin

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi जंगल (jaṅgal) / Urdu جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal)), from Sauraseni Pra

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.

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