Anglo-Indian. Also 7 bungale, 8 bungula, bungelow, bungilo, 8–9 bungalo (pl. -oes), 9 bungallow. [a. Hindustani banglā, understood to be identical with the adj. of same form, meaning ‘belonging to Bengal.’]
A one-storied house (or temporary building, e.g., a summer-house), lightly built, usually with a thatched roof. Dawk bungalow: see DAWK.
1676. Streynsham Master, MS. Diary (India Office), 25 Nov. It was thought fitt … to sett up Bungales or Hovells … for all such English in the Company’s Service as belong to their Sloopes & Vessells.
1711. [? Thornton], Engl. Pilot, III. 54. All along the Hughley Shore … almost as far as the Dutch Bungelow.
1754. E. Thompson, Sailor’s Lett. (1766), I. xii. 89–90. In an evening, by way of air and amusement, we swing to the Bread and cheese Bungula in our palanquins.
1809. Maria Graham, Jrnl. Resid. India (1813), 10 (Y.). We came to a small bungalo, or garden-house.
a. 1847. Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, III. xxi. 239. The bungalows in India … are, for the most part … built of unbaked bricks and covered with thatch, having in the centre a hall … the whole being encompassed by an open verandah.
1875. F. Hall, in Lippincott’s Mag., XV. 338/1. Every day I stopped once or twice at a travellers’ bungalow, or rest-house.
