jungleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
• 韻: -ʌŋɡəl

名詞

jungle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

4. (figuratively) 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. (Britain) A migrant camp.
7. (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
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.

形容詞

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.

派生語

派生した語

• → French: jungle
• → 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

参考

• rainforest

Further reading

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