Frequent words in The Jungle Book
Father Wolf wakes in the Seeonee hills on the night Mowgli arrives.
| Word | Translation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| said | dijo | “Augrh!” said Father Wolf. |
| little | pequeño | “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. |
| mowgli | Mowgli | Mowgli’s Brothers Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Kaa’s Hunting Road-Song of the Bandar-Log “Tiger! |
| one | uno | It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in… |
| man | hombre | “It is Man.” |
| jungle | jungla | Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! |
| head | cabeza | He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I--I have to kill for two, these days.” |
| back | atrás | Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily. |
| go | ir | “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. |
| bagheera | Bagheera | It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. |
| never | nunca | And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.” |
| big | grande | Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. |
| like | como, gustar | Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?” |
| rikki | Rikki | Tiger!” Mowgli’s Song The White Seal Lukannon “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Darzee’s Chant Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper Her Majesty’s Servants Parade Song of the Camp Animals |
| come | venir | Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him, and he has come here to make our villagers angry. |
| now | ahora | Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. |
| tikki | Tikki | Tiger!” Mowgli’s Song The White Seal Lukannon “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Darzee’s Chant Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper Her Majesty’s Servants Parade Song of the Camp Animals |
| time | tiempo | “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. |
| two | dos | He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I--I have to kill for two, these days.” |
| thou | tú | Thou hast done harm enough for one night.” |
| wolf | lobo | It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in… |
| men | hombres | Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.” |
| sea | mar | Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his… |
| went | fue | Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking: “My lord, my lord, it went in here!” |
| came | vino | Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night. |
| nag | Nag | |
| baloo | Baloo | Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts… |
| old | viejo | But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them. |
| away | lejos | Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away. |
| shere | Shere | “Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. |
| people | gente | Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily. |
| night | noche | Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. |
| toomai | Toomai | Tiger!” Mowgli’s Song The White Seal Lukannon “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Darzee’s Chant Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper Her Majesty’s Servants Parade Song of the Camp Animals |
| know | saber | Akela from his rock would cry: “Ye know the Law--ye know the Law. |
| elephants | elefantes | The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches. |
| must | debe | They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. |
| good | bueno | Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! |
| thee | te | He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs--frog-eater--fish-killer--he shall hunt thee! |
| long | largo | At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats. |
| kotick | Kotick | |
| khan | kan | “Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. |
| till | hasta | Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. |
| pack | manada | The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his… |
| eyes | ojos | How large are their eyes! |
| feet | pies | “The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt. |
| great | gran | The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance. |
| knew | sabía | Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces. |
| look | mirada | “Enter, then, and look,” said Father Wolf stiffly, “but there is no food here.” |
| well | bien | Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces. |
| made | hecho | Tabaqui sat still, rejoicing in the mischief that he had made, and then he said spitefully: |