The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
JUNGLE
jungle
(noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest
jungle
(noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
jungle (countable and uncountable, plural jungles)
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
(South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
(colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
(slang) An area where hobos camp together.
(UK) A migrant camp.
(uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
(Israel, Texas, US) A desert region.
(golf, slang) Dense rough.
Synonym: tiger country
(vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.
Adjective
jungle (not comparable)
(Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
Source: Wiktionary
Jun"gle, n. Etym: [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. ja desert.]
Definition: A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail or sloth bear.
– Jungle cat (Zoöl.), the chaus.
– Jungle cock (Zoöl.), the male of a jungle fowl.
– Jungle fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India.
Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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