wilderness

Etymology
From, , and then either:


 * from (from ; see below) +, ; or
 * from, , probably from or more likely from  (from  + ) +.

is derived from (ultimately either from, , or ) +  (ultimately from ).

The English word is cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Sense 3.3 (“situation of disfavour or lack of recognition”) is a reference to Numbers 14:32–33 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.”

Noun

 * 1)  Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild;  a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
 * 2)  A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
 * 3)  An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
 * 4)  Unrefinedness; wildness.
 * 5) Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
 * 6) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 7) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1)  A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
 * 2)  An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
 * 3)  Unrefinedness; wildness.
 * 4) Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
 * 5) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 6) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1)  A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
 * 2)  An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
 * 3)  Unrefinedness; wildness.
 * 4) Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
 * 5) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 6) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
 * 2) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 3) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
 * 2) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 3) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 2) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 2) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
 * 2) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
 * 1) Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition;  of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَرِّيَّة
 * Belarusian: глуш, пустэча, дзікая мясціна, дзікі абшар
 * Bulgarian:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: halé·-to-
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vildmark, vildnis
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sovaĝejo
 * Faroese: villiniland
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: nature sauvage, région sauvage, contrée sauvage
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌹𐌳𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔρημος
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: óbyggðir
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fiántas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:, tesqua
 * Macedonian: дивина
 * Maori: koraha
 * Meru: muitu
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: villnis, villmark
 * Nynorsk: villnis, villmark
 * Old Czech: divočina
 * Ottoman Turkish: یابان
 * Plautdietsch: Wiltniss
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian: ди́кая приро́да, нетро́нутая приро́да, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàsach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, , , , , , , tierra salvaje
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: bakir alan,, vahşi tabiat, yozlak
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎄𐎁𐎗
 * Zulu: indle