bungalow
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Hindi बंगला (baṅglā, “Bengali”), referring to the Bengali-style house. Compare Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo) and Bengali বাংলা (baṅla). Doublet of bangalo.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌŋɡələʊ/, /ˈbʌŋɡl̩əʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌŋɡəloʊ/, /ˈbʌŋɡl̩oʊ/
- Hyphenation: bun‧ga‧low
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Noun
editbungalow (plural bungalows)
- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur[1]:
- Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 110:
- Following the rule adopted in most tropical countries, a bungalow style of house was chosen.
- (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: bungalow
- → Finnish: bungalow
- → French: bungalow
- → German: Bungalow
- → Italian: bungalow
- → Romanian: bungalow
- → Spanish: bungalow
- → Welsh: byngalo
Translations
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References
edit- “bungalow”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “bungalow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bungalow, from Hindi बंगला (baṅglā).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbungalow m (plural bungalows, diminutive bungalowtje n)
- A bungalow (small holiday home, usually single-storey).
Derived terms
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbungalow
- bungalow (one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah)
Declension
editInflection of bungalow (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bungalow | bungalowit | |
genitive | bungalowin | bungalowien | |
partitive | bungalowia | bungaloweja | |
illative | bungalowiin | bungaloweihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bungalow | bungalowit | |
accusative | nom. | bungalow | bungalowit |
gen. | bungalowin | ||
genitive | bungalowin | bungalowien | |
partitive | bungalowia | bungaloweja | |
inessive | bungalowissa | bungaloweissa | |
elative | bungalowista | bungaloweista | |
illative | bungalowiin | bungaloweihin | |
adessive | bungalowilla | bungaloweilla | |
ablative | bungalowilta | bungaloweilta | |
allative | bungalowille | bungaloweille | |
essive | bungalowina | bungaloweina | |
translative | bungalowiksi | bungaloweiksi | |
abessive | bungalowitta | bungaloweitta | |
instructive | — | bungalowein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “bungalow”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
editPronunciation
edit- (France, Belgium, Switzerland) IPA(key): /bœ̃.ɡa.lo/
Audio (France): (file) - (Quebec) IPA(key): /bɔŋ.ɡa.lo/
Audio (Quebec): (file) Audio: (file)
Noun
editbungalow m (plural bungalows)
Further reading
edit- “bungalow”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bungalow.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbungalow m (invariable)
References
edit- bungalow in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bungalow.
Noun
editbungalow n (plural bungalow-uri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bungalow | bungalowul | (niște) bungalow-uri | bungalow-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bungalow | bungalowului | (unor) bungalow-uri | bungalow-urilor |
vocative | bungalowule | bungalow-urilor |
Spanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bungalow.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbungalow m (plural bungalows)
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
edit- “bungalow”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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