# jeep
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: jēp, IPA: /d͡ʒiːp/
* Rhymes: -iːp
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Etymology 1

Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).

#### Adjective

jeep (not comparable)
* (military) Pertaining to utility or general purpose.

##### Derived terms

* jeep (“light utility truck / offroad 4WD”)
* jeep carrier (“aircraft carrier”)

#### Noun

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

* Jeep (“trademark derived from the military vehicle”)
* jeepable
* jeep girl
* jeeplike
* jeepney
* minijeep

##### Descendants

* → 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
* → Tausug: jīp
* →⇒ Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib)
* → Turkish: cip
* → Welsh: jîp

##### Translations
#### Verb

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

Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.

#### Noun

jeep (plural jeeps)
* (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"
* (Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".

#### References

* ↑ 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

An ironic pronunciation of AGP, the initialism of autogynephilia in Blanchard's transsexual typology.

#### Noun

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
** 2024 September 30, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:Everyone who comes here and who knows who Blanchard even is would be considered an agp fetishist coomer by Blanchard. Cope harder you malebrained jeep.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English jeep. Genericized trademark.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /(d)ʒip/

### Noun

jeep f (plural jeeps)
* jeep

### Further reading

* “jeep”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English jeep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒip/
* Rhymes: -ip

### Noun

jeep f (invariable)
* jeep

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeep. Genericized trademark.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʐip/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ip
* Syllabification: jeep
* Homophone: dżip

### Noun

jeep m inan
* Alternative spelling of dżip

#### Declension
### Further reading

* jeep in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French jeep.

### Noun

jeep n (plural jeepuri)
* jeep

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝip/ [ˈɟ͡ʝip]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝip/ [ˈɟ͡ʝip]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃip/ [ˈʃip]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒip/ [ˈʒip]
* Rhymes: -ip

### Noun

jeep m (plural jeeps)
* jeep

#### Usage notes

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

* “jeep”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English jeep.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːp

### Noun

jeep c
* jeep

#### Derived terms

* jeepdunk (“jerry can”)

### References

* jeep in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* jeep in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)