jeep

See also: Jeep and JEEP

English

A Willys MA, an iconic World War II jeep.

A shopping jeep

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēp, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).

Adjective

jeep (not comparable)

1. (military) Pertaining to utility or general purpose.

Derived terms

• jeep carrier (aircraft carrier)
• jeep (light utility truck / offroad 4WD)

 

Noun

jeep (plural jeeps)

1. A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
2. A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.
3. (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.
4. (Philippines, colloquial) Clipping of jeepney

Derived terms

• jeepable
• jeep girl
• jeeplike
• jeepney
• Jeep (trademark derived from the military vehicle)
• minijeep

 

Descendants

• → Mandarin: 吉普 (jípǔ)
• → Bikol Central: dyip
• → Cebuano: dyip
• → Czech: džíp
• → Danish: jeep
• → Esperanto: ĵipo
• → Faroese: jeppur
• → Finnish: jeeppi
• → French: jeep
• → German: Jeep
• → Hungarian: dzsip
• → Icelandic: jeppi
• → Irish: jíp
• → Italian: jeep
• → Japanese: ジープ (jīpu)
• → Polish: dżip
• → Portuguese: jipe
• → Russian: джип (džip) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: džȉp, џи̏п
• → Slovak: džíp
• → Spanish: jeep
• → Swedish: jeep
• → Tagalog: dyip
• →⇒ Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib)
• → Turkish: cip
• → Welsh: jîp

Translations

vehicle

• Arabic: جِيب (ar) m (jīb)
• Armenian: ջիպ (hy) (ǰip)
• Bulgarian: джип m (džip)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 吉普 (zh-min-nan) (Taiwanese), 集尼車／集尼车 (Philippine)

  Mandarin: 吉普 (zh) (jípǔ), 吉普車／吉普车 (zh) (jípǔchē)

• Czech: džíp m
• Dutch: jeep (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĵipo
• Faroese: jeppur m
• Finnish: jeeppi (fi)
• French: jeep (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯიპი (ǯiṗi)
• German: Jeep (de) m
• Hebrew: גִ׳יפּ
• Hindi: जीप (hi) (jīp)
• Hungarian: dzsip (hu)
• Icelandic: jeppi (is) m
• Irish: jíp m
• Japanese: ジープ (jīpu)
• Khmer: ហ្ស៊ីប (ziip)
• Korean: 지프 (ko) (jipeu)
• Malay: jip
• Maori: tīpa
• Marathi: जीप f (jīp)
• Navajo: siláołtsooí bichidí
• Persian: جیپ (fa) (jip)
• Polish: dżip (pl) m
• Portuguese: jipe (pt)
• Russian: джип (ru) m (džip)
• Serbo-Croatian: džip (sh) m
• Slovak: džíp m
• Spanish: jeep (es) m
• Swedish: jeep (sv)
• Tagalog: dyip
• Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib), ཅི་ཕུའི་ཁྲེ (ci phu'i khre)
• Turkish: cip (tr)

Verb

jeep (third-person singular simple present jeeps, present participle jeeping, simple past and past participle jeeped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To travel by jeep.
   • 1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 272:

     From there we jeeped over extraordinarily difficult roads to Marwari City, the site of Southern Philippine University, where I had been invited to address a convocation on the subject of "College Life in the United States."

Etymology 2

Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.

Noun

jeep (plural jeeps)

1. (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"
2. (Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeep. Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʒip/

Noun

jeep f (plural jeeps)

1. jeep

Further reading

• “jeep”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒip/
• Rhymes: -ip

Noun

jeep f (invariable)

1. jeep

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeep. Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐip/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: jeep
• Homophone: dżip

Noun

jeep m inan

1. Alternative spelling of dżip

Declension

Declension of jeep

	singular	plural
nominative	jeep	jeepy
genitive	jeepa	jeepów
dative	jeepowi	jeepom
accusative	jeepa	jeepy
instrumental	jeepem	jeepami
locative	jeepie	jeepach
vocative	jeepie	jeepy

Further reading

• jeep in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jeep.

Noun

jeep n (plural jeepuri)

1. jeep

Declension

Declension of jeep

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) jeep	jeepul	(niște) jeepuri	jeepurile
genitive/dative	(unui) jeep	jeepului	(unor) jeepuri	jeepurilor
vocative	jeepule		jeepurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeep.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝip/ [ˈɟ͡ʝip]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝip/ [ˈɟ͡ʝip]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃip/ [ˈʃip]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒip/ [ˈʒip]

• Rhymes: -ip

Noun

jeep m (plural jeeps)

1. jeep

Usage notes

According 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

• “jeep”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From English jeep.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

jeep c

1. jeep

Declension

Declension of jeep
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	jeep	jeepen	jeepar	jeeparna
Genitive	jeeps	jeepens	jeepars	jeeparnas

Derived terms

• jeepdunk (“jerry can”)

References

• jeep in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jeep in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)