jeep
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).
Adjective
[edit]jeep (not comparable)
- (military) Pertaining to utility or general purpose.
Derived terms
[edit]- jeep carrier (aircraft carrier)
- jeep (light utility truck / offroad 4WD)
Noun
[edit]jeep (plural jeeps)
- A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
- A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.
- (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.
- (Philippines, colloquial) Clipping of jeepney
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Mandarin: 吉普 (jípǔ)
- → Bikol Central: dyip
- → Cebuano: dyip
- → Czech: džíp
- → Danish: jeep
- → Esperanto: ĵipo
- → Faroese: jeppur
- → Finnish: jeeppi
- → French: jeep
- → German: Jeep
- → Hungarian: dzsip
- → Icelandic: jeppi
- → Irish: jíp
- → Italian: jeep
- → Japanese: ジープ (jīpu)
- → Polish: dżip
- → Portuguese: jipe
- → Russian: джип (džip) (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: džȉp, џи̏п
- → Slovak: džíp
- → Spanish: jeep
- → Swedish: jeep
- → Tagalog: dyip
- →⇒ Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib)
- → Turkish: cip
- → Welsh: jîp
Translations
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Verb
[edit]jeep (third-person singular simple present jeeps, present participle jeeping, simple past and past participle jeeped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To travel by jeep.
- 1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 272:
- From there we jeeped over extraordinarily difficult roads to Marwari City, the site of Southern Philippine University, where I had been invited to address a convocation on the subject of "College Life in the United States."
Etymology 2
[edit]Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.[1]
Noun
[edit]jeep (plural jeeps)
- (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"[2]
- (Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Delbridge, A.; Bernard, J. R. L.; Blair, D.; Ramson, W. S. and Butler, Susan (eds). 1981. The Macquarie Dictionary. Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd.
- ^ Lu, Q.M.; Gunnerson, C.G.; Knudsen, J.F.; French, J.A.; Eskesen, S.K.; Powers, J.T.; Shremp, F.; Segar, D.A.; Stamman, E. and Yucheng, Z. 2012. Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities: The Ocean Disposal Option. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. isbn:9783642797293 p. 166
- ^ Ramson, W.S. 1970. English Transported: Essays on Australasian English. Australian National University Press. isbn: 9780708106266 p.53
Etymology 3
[edit]An ironic pronunciation of AGP, the initialism of autogynephilia in Blanchard's transsexual typology.
Noun
[edit]jeep (plural jeeps)
- (4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who is sexually attracted to women and transitioned due to autogynephilia.
- Coordinate term: husstuss
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English jeep. Genericized trademark.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeep f (plural jeeps)
Further reading
[edit]- “jeep”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeep f (invariable)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English jeep. Genericized trademark.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeep m inan
- Alternative spelling of dżip
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- jeep in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeep n (plural jeepuri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | jeep | jeepul | jeepuri | jeepurile | |
genitive-dative | jeep | jeepului | jeepuri | jeepurilor | |
vocative | jeepule | jeepurilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English jeep.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ip
Noun
[edit]jeep m (plural jeeps)
Usage notes
[edit]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.
Further reading
[edit]- “jeep”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iːp
Noun
[edit]jeep c
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | jeep | jeeps |
definite | jeepen | jeepens | |
plural | indefinite | jeepar | jeepars |
definite | jeeparna | jeeparnas |
Derived terms
[edit]- jeepdunk (“jerry can”)
References
[edit]- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːp
- Rhymes:English/iːp/1 syllable
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Military
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Philippine English
- English colloquialisms
- English clippings
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- Australian English
- Regional English
- English 4chan /lgbt/ slang
- English derogatory terms
- English offensive terms
- English eponyms
- en:Vehicles
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French genericized trademarks
- fr:Vehicles
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 1-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ip
- Rhymes:Italian/ip/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with J
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Vehicles
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish genericized trademarks
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ip
- Rhymes:Polish/ip/1 syllable
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Vehicles
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 1-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ip
- Rhymes:Spanish/ip/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Rhymes:Swedish/iːp
- Rhymes:Swedish/iːp/1 syllable
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Transport
- sv:Vehicles