bungalow

bungalow

See also: Bungalow

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बंगला (baṅglā, “Bengali”), referring to the Bengali-style house. Compare Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo) and Bengali বাংলা (baṅla). Doublet of bangalo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌŋɡələʊ/, /ˈbʌŋɡl̩əʊ/

• Audio (southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌŋɡəloʊ/, /ˈbʌŋɡl̩oʊ/
• Hyphenation: bun‧ga‧low
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

bungalow (plural bungalows)

1. 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:

     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.

2. 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.

Derived terms

• dak bungalow / dawk bungalow

Descendants

• → German: Bungalow
• → Welsh: byngalo

Translations

single-storey house

Armenian: ամառանոց (hy) (amaṙanocʿ) Bengali: বাংলা (bn) (baṅla) Bulgarian: бунгало n (bungalo) Chinese: Mandarin: 平房 (zh) (píngfáng) Czech: bungalov (cs) Danish: bungalow c Dutch: bungalow (nl) m Esperanto: bangalo Finnish: pientalo (fi) Georgian: ბუნგალო (bungalo) German: Bungalow (de) m, eingeschossiges Haus n Greek: μπανγκαλόου (el) n (bangkalóou) Greenlandic: bungalowi Hindi: बँगला (hi) m (baṅglā), बंगला m (baṅglā) Hungarian: bungaló (hu), egyszintes ház Irish: bungaló m Japanese: バンガロー (bangarō) Korean: 방갈로 (banggallo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: bungalo f, kolik (ku) m, holik (ku) m, koxik (ku) m Malay: banglo Marathi: बंगला m (baṅglā) Persian: بنگله‎ (fa) (bangale) Portuguese: bangalô (pt) m Russian: да́ча (ru) f (dáča), бу́нга́ло (ru) n (búngálo) Slovene: bungalov m Tagalog: bunggalo Thai: บังกะโล (bang-gà-loo) Turkish: bungalov (tr) Urdu: بنگلہ‎ m (baṅglā) Welsh: byngalo m

one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah

Danish: bungalow c Finnish: bungalow (fi) Georgian: ბუნგალო (bungalo) German: Bungalow (de) m Hindi: बंगला m (baṅglā), बँगला (hi) m (baṅglā) Hungarian: bungaló (hu) Irish: bungaló m Japanese: バンガロー (bangarō) Russian: бунга́ло (ru) n (bungálo), бу́нгало (ru) n (búngalo)

References

• “bungalow”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “bungalow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bungalow, from Hindi बंगला (baṅglā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏŋ.ɡə.loː/, /ˈbʏŋ.ɡaː.loː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: bun‧ga‧low

Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows, diminutive bungalowtje n)

1. A bungalow (small holiday home, usually single-storey).

Derived terms

• bungalowpark

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Finnish

Etymology

From English bungalow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋːɑlou/, [ˈbɑŋːɑˌlo̞u]

Noun

bungalow

1. bungalow (one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah)

Declension

Inflection of bungalow (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	bungalowein
abessive		bungalowitta	bungaloweitta
comitative		—	bungaloweineen

Possessive forms of bungalow (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	bungalowini	bungalowimme
2nd person	bungalowisi	bungalowinne
3rd person	bungalowinsa

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French

Pronunciation

• (France, Belgium, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /bœ̃.ɡa.lo/

• Audio (France)

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bɔŋ.ɡa.lo/

• Audio (Quebec)

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Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

Further reading

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From English bungalow.

Noun

bungalow n (plural bungalow-uri)

1. bungalow

Declension

Declension of bungalow

	singular		plural
	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

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• bungaló

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bungalow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bunɡaˈlo/ [bũŋ.ɡaˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

Further reading

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