köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyšk' /wēšag/). Cognate to Central Kurdish بیشە (bîşe, “forest”) and Northern Kurdish bîşe (“forest”), Related to Latvian mežs (“forest”), Proto-Slavic *meďà (“boundary of a field”) and the borrowed Proto-Finnic *meccä (“forest”), Ottoman Turkish میشه (meşä, “forest”), Azerbaijani meşə (“forest”), ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos…
köken: ⟨siɡe₂mi₁⟩ → /siɡemi/ → /ɕiɡemi/ From Old Japanese. Derived from the stem of classical adjective 繁し (shigeshi), modern 繁い (shigei, “thick”) + み (-mi, continuative suffix).
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala) Prakrit जंगल (jaṃgala) Hindi जंगल Inherited from Prakrit जंगल (jaṃgala), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “any arid or sterile region”).
shrubbery (growth of shrubs, planted or natural) · scrub, brush (vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil)