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Meaning
noun a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
noun a place where hoboes camp
noun an impenetrable equatorial forest
originBorrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
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