bungalow的词源

英文词源

bungalow: bungalow: [17] Etymologically, bungalow means simply ‘Bengali’. Banglā is the Hind word for ‘of Bengal’ (as in Bangladesh), and English borrowed it (probably in the Gujarati version bangalo) in the sense ‘house in the Bengal style’. Originally this signified any simple, lightly-built, usually temporary structure, which by definition had only one storey, but it is the one-storeyedness that has come to be the identifying characteristic.
bungalow (n.): 1670s, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla "low, thatched house," literally "Bengalese," used elliptically for "house in the Bengal style" (see Bengal). Related: Bungaloid.

bungalow是美国一种比较流行的建筑款式，指那种带有凉台或走廊的平房，夏天人们可以在凉台上纳凉，或者在走廊上养花、散步、溜狗、聊天。这种小屋通常只有一层，顶上有一个加盖的阁楼，因此有着漂亮的斜屋顶。

尽管bungalow在美国流行，但它实际上是一个外来词。它来自印度语bangla，字面意思是Bengalese（孟加拉人），指的是“按照孟加拉风格建造的房屋”。在孟加拉以及印度东部的孟加拉邦，这种款式的平房十分常见。英国殖民者来到印度和孟加拉后，将这种建筑款式带回了欧洲，后来又流传至美洲大陆。

bungalow： ['bʌŋgələʊ] n.孟加拉风格的平房，小屋

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词源同Bangladesh, 孟加拉国。指孟加拉人住的房子。