bungalow

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

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

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

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.

3. (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge
4. (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion

• California bungalow
• dak bungalow / dawk bungalow

• → Dutch: bungalow
• → Finnish: bungalow
• → French: bungalow
• → German: Bungalow
• → Italian: bungalow
• → Romanian: bungalow
• → Spanish: bungalow
• → Welsh: byngalo

• “bungalow”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “bungalow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

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

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

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• Hyphenation: bun‧ga‧low

bungalow m (plural bungalows, diminutive bungalowtje n)

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

• bungalowpark

From English bungalow.

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

bungalow

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

• “bungalow”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

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

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bɔŋ.ɡa.lo/

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bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

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

Borrowed from English bungalow.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbun.ɡa.lov/
• Rhymes: -unɡalov
• Hyphenation: bun‧ga‧low

bungalow m (invariable)

1. bungalow

• bungalow in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from English bungalow.

bungalow n (plural bungalow-uri)

1. bungalow

• bungaló

Unadapted borrowing from English bungalow.

• IPA^(key): /bunɡaˈlo/ [bũŋ.ɡaˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bun‧ga‧low

bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

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.

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