the bush (remote, undeveloped area); the backcountry; the sticks; the middle of nowhere
çekim: çoğul andurriales
köken: Unknown. Proposed etymologies include: * From Andalusian Arabic [Term?]. * From Basque andur (“contemptible”). * From andar (“to walk”). First attested c. 1464-1474 (see quotations).
andase tras los zagales por esos alla andurriales todo el dia enbebeçido holgazando sin sentido q[ue] non cura de n[uest]ros males.
Idos a la vuestra, hermano, que vos sois, y no otro, el que destrae y sonsaca a mi señor, y le lleva por esos andurriales.
wilderness (uncultivated tract of land) · backwater (backward place) · mob (unruly group of people)
çekim: tamlayan dziczy
eş: hołota, pustkowie, odludzie
köken: Back-formation from dziki. Cognate with Belarusian дзі́ч f (dzíč, “game; backwoods”), Russian ди́чь f (díčʹ, “game (wild animals); wilderness; nonsense”). First attested in 1586.
An imaginary remote place, which is far from anything interesting; the middle of nowhere - equates to Bumfuck, Egypt in American slang and Woop Woop in Australian slang.
köken: The former alternative name of Kohila, Rapla County, named after a part of the borough, where the Kapa postage station used to stand on a distinct hill.
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan selva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Occitan selva, Spanish selva.