July

See also: july

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: jo͝o-līʹ; IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ/
• (General American) enPR: jə-līʹ, jo͞o-līʹ; IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈlaɪ/, /d͡ʒuˈlaɪ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: Ju‧ly
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

July (plural Julies or Julys)

2. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.
3. (uncommon) A female given name from English.
   • 2004, Eric Arnesen, The Human Tradition in American Labor History, →ISBN, page 73:

     By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.

   • 2003, William C. Davis, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, →ISBN, page 153:

     In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.

Derived terms

• Black July
• Christmas in July
• Fourth of July
• Holiday in July
• July 20 Plot
• July Cup
• July Days
• Julyish
• July Monarchy
• July Morning
• July Ordinances
• July Revolution
• July Stakes
• July Ultimatum
• mid-July

 

Related terms

• Julius

Descendants

• Bislama: julae
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Juulai
• Tok Pisin: Julai
• → Assamese: জুলাই (zulai)
• → Bengali: জুলাই (julai)
• → Burmese: ဇူလိုင် (juluing)
• → Chichewa: Julaye
• → Dari: جولای (julây)
• → Fijian: Jiulai
• → Gilbertese: Turai
• → Hausa: Yuli
• → Hawaiian: Iulai
• → Hindi: जूलाई (jūlāī)
• → Inuktitut: ᔪᓚᐃ (yolai)
• → Malay: Julai
• → Maori: Hūrae
• → Marathi: जुलै (julai)
• → Marshallese: Juļae
• → Odia: ଜୁଲାଇ (julāi)
• → Pashto: جولای (ǰolãy)
• → Pennsylvania German: Tschulei
• → Samoan: iulai
• → Swahili: Julai
• → Tahitian: tiurai
• → Telugu: జూలై (jūlai)
• → Tokelauan: Iulai
• → Tongan: Siulai
• → Tumbuka: julayi
• → Urdu: جولائ (jūlāī)

Translations

seventh month of the Gregorian calendar

• Abaza: пхынчыльа (pxənćəlᶻa)
• Abkhaz: ҧхынгәы (pxəngʷə)
• Adyghe: бэдзэогъу (bɛdzɛwoğʷu)
• Afrikaans: Julie (af)
• Alabama: hasiholtina istontóklo
• Albanian: korrik m
• Alutiiq: Amartut Iraluat
• Amharic: ጁላይ (ǧulay)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: Niiʼ Dichíhé

• Arabic: يُولِيُو (ar) m (yūliyō), تَمُّوز (ar) m (tammūz)
• Aragonese: chulio (an) m
• Armenian: հուլիս (hy) (hulis)

  Old Armenian: յուլիս (yulis)

• Aromanian: alunar, iuliu, curic
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܡܘܿܙ m (tamoz)
• Asturian: xunetu (ast) m
• Atikamekw: Mikomini pisimw
• Azerbaijani: iyul (az)
• Basque: uztail (eu)
• Belarusian: лі́пень (be) m (lípjenʹ)
• Bengali: জুলাই (bn) (julai)
• Bislama: julae
• Brahui: Jaoláí
• Breton: Gouere (br) m
• Bulgarian: ю́ли (bg) m (júli)
• Burmese: ဇူလိုင် (my) (juluing), ခုနှစ်လ (hku.hnacla.)
• Catalan: juliol (ca) m
• Central Dusun: Madas
• Chechen: Товбецан-бутт (Tovbecan-butt)
• Cherokee: ᎫᏰᏉᏂ (guyequoni), ᎫᏰᏉᎾ (guyequona)
• Chichewa: Julaye
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 七月 (cat¹ jyut⁶)

  Dungan: чийүә (čiyüə)

  Hakka: 七月 (chhit-ngie̍t)

  Hokkien: 七月 (chhit-go̍eh, chhit-ge̍h, chhit-gōe)

  Mandarin: 七月／7月 (qīyuè)

• Chukchi: анойъэлгын (anojʺėlgyn), анойъэԓгын (anojʺėḷgyn), тавтынйъэԓгын (tavtynjʺėḷgyn)
• Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă)
• Coptic: ⲓⲟⲩⲗⲓⲟⲥ (ioulios)
• Cornish: mis Gortheren m
• Corsican: lugliu (co) m, lughju m
• Czech: červenec (cs) m
• Dakota: Mdokecokawi
• Danish: juli (da) c
• Dhivehi: ޖުލައި (julai)
• Dutch: juli (nl) m
• Dzongkha: སྤྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ། (spyi zla bdun pa)
• Emilian: lój
• Erzya: медьков (meďkov)
• Esperanto: julio (eo), Julio
• Estonian: juuli (et)
• Ewe: Siamlɔm, Yuli
• Faroese: juli
• Fijian: Jiulai
• Finnish: heinäkuu (fi)
• French: juillet (fr) m
• Friulian: Lui
• Galician: xullo (gl) m
• Georgian: ივლისი (ka) (ivlisi)
• German: Juli (de) m, Heuert (de) m (archaic)
• Gilbertese: Turai
• Greek: Ιούλιος (el) m (Ioúlios)
• Greenlandic: juuli
• Guaraní: jasypokõi
• Haitian Creole: jiyè
• Hausa: Yuli
• Hawaiian: Iulai
• Hebrew: יוּלִי (he) (yúli)
• Hindi: जूलाई (hi) f (jūlāī)
• Hungarian: július (hu)
• Icelandic: júlí (is) m, júlímánuður m
• Ido: julio (io)
• Inari Sami: syeinimáánu
• Indonesian: juli
• Interlingua: julio (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᔪᓚᐃ (iu) (yolai)
• Inupiaq: Isavik, Iñukkuksaivik
• Irish: Iúil (ga) m
• Italian: luglio (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: Julai
• Japanese: 七月 (ja) (しちがつ, shichigatsu), 文月 (ja) (ふみづき, fumizuki, ふづき, fuzuki)
• Javanese: juli
• Kabuverdianu: júliu
• Kambera: wulang pitu
• Kapampangan: Pángapitung búlan, Ulyu
• Kazakh: шілде (kk) (şılde)
• Khmer: កក្កដា (km) (kakkaʼdaa)
• Kikuyu: Gathano
• Kongo: yuli
• Korean: 7월(月) (ko) (chirwol), 칠월(七月) (ko) (chirwol)
• Kyrgyz: июль (ky) (iyul)
• Ladin: messel
• Lao: ເດືອນກໍລະກົດ (dư̄an kǭ la kot)
• Latin: iūlius (la)
• Latvian: jūlijs (lv) m
• Lezgi: чиле (čile)
• Ligurian: lûggio
• Limburgish: Juli
• Lingala: yúli
• Lithuanian: liepa (lt) f
• Livonian: jūlij, āinakū
• Lombard: löj, lüj
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: juli

  German Low German: Juli m, Heumaand m

• Luxembourgish: Juli (lb) m, Heemount (lb) m
• Macedonian: јули (mk) m (juli)
• Malay: julai
• Malayalam: ജൂലൈ (ml) (jūlai)
• Maltese: Lulju (mt) m
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ
  ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ (nadan biya)
• Maori: Hūrae
• Marathi: जुलै (julai)
• Mingrelian: კვირკვე (ḳvirḳve)
• Mirandese: Júlio m
• Mòcheno: heibeger m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: долдүгаар сар (doldügaar sar)

• Montagnais: shetan-pishimᵘ
• Navajo: Yaʼiishjáástsoh
• Neapolitan: iuglio m, lùglio
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: jüüle m

  Mooring: foodermoune m, juuli m

  Sylt: Fođermuun m, Juuli m

• Northern Sami: suoidnemánnu
• Northern Sotho: Mosegamanye
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: juli (no) m

  Nynorsk: juli (nn) m

• Occitan: julhet (oc) m

  Aranese: junhsèga m

• Odia: ଜୁଲାଇ (or) (julāi)
• Ojibwe: aabita-niibino-giizis
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: чрьвл҄енъ m (črĭvlʹenŭ), чрьвьць m (črĭvĭcĭ)

• Old English: se æfterra līþa m
• Oromo: Adooleessa (om)
• Ossetian: июль (ijulʹ)
• Pali: kakkaṭāgama m (literally), āsāḷha (traditional)
• Pannonian Rusyn: юлий m (julij)
• Pashto: جولای f (jolãy)
• Pennsylvania German: Tschulei, Yuli
• Persian: ژوئیه (fa) (žu'iye), جولای (fa) (jôlây) (Dari)
• Plautdietsch: Juli m
• Polish: lipiec (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: julho (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਜੁਲਾਈ m (julāī)
• Romanian: iulie (ro) m, (popular) cuptor (ro)
• Romansch: fanadour m, fanadur m, fenadur m, lügl m
• Russian: ию́ль (ru) m (ijúlʹ)
• Samoan: iulai
• Sardinian: alzolas, argiolas, trébua, tríbulas, trìulas
• Saterland Frisian: Juli
• Scots: Julie
• Scottish Gaelic: Iuchar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ју̑л m, ју̑ли m, ср̑пањ m

  Roman: jȗl m, jȗli (sh) m, sȓpanj (sh) m

• Shona: Chikunguru
• Sicilian: giugnettu (scn) m, lugghiu (scn) m, lugliu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: ජූලි (si) (jūli)
• Skolt Sami: sueiʹnnmään
• Slovak: júl (sk)
• Slovene: júlij (sl) m
• Sotho: Phupu (st)
• Spanish: julio (es) m
• Svan: გვირკ (gvirḳ)
• Swahili: Julai
• Swazi: Khólwáne (ss)
• Swedish: juli (sv) c
• Tagalog: Hulyo (tl)
• Tahitian: tiurai
• Tajik: июл (tg) (iyul)
• Tatar: июль (iyul’)
• Telugu: జూలై (te) (jūlai)
• Thai: กรกฎาคม (th) (gà-rá-gà-daa-kom)
• Tok Pisin: julai
• Tongan: Siulai
• Turkish: temmuz (tr), orakayı (tr), yanarayı (tr), biçim ayı (tr)
• Turkmen: iýul
• Udmurt: пӧсьтолэзь (pöśtoleź)
• Ukrainian: ли́пень (uk) m (lýpenʹ)
• Urdu: جولائ f (jūlāī)
• Uyghur: ئىيۇل (iyul), يەتتىنچى ئاي (yettinchi ay)
• Uzbek: iyul (uz)
• Vai: ꖱꕞꔤ (Julái)
• Venetan: lujo (vec)
• Vietnamese: tháng bảy (vi), tháng 7
• Võro: hainakuu
• Walloon: djulete (wa)
• Welsh: Gorffennaf (cy) m
• West Frisian: july (fy), haaimoanne
• Winnebago: Waxoc wiira
• Wolof: Sulet
• Yakut: От ыйа (Ot ıya)
• Yiddish: יולי (yi) m (yuli)
• Yup'ik: Ingun
• Zazaki: Temuze, Paliyan
• Zuni: Kwa'shi'amme Yachunne, Dayamcho Yachunne

See also

• 7/7
• July-flower
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}

Etymology 2

A translation of the French surname Juillet.

Proper noun

July (plural Julys)

1. A surname from French.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, July is the 40261^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 544 individuals. July is most common among Black/African American (45.04%) White (39.89%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “July”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 258.