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Meaning of jungli in English:

jungli

Pronunciation /ˈdʒʌŋɡli/

adjective

Indian

  • Uncultured; wild.

    ‘they are jungli, not educated people’
    • ‘the East India Company decided that it could not allow its employees to go jungli, native’
    primitive, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, uneducated, ignorant

Origin

From jungle + the suffix -i (as in Hindi); compare with Hindi janglī.