joli
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French joly (“considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty”), from Old French joli, jolif (“pretty, smart, joyful, merry”), possibly from Old Norse jól (midwinter festival), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō (“Yule, Yule month, December”) (more at yule); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy).
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joli (feminine jolie, masculine plural jolis, feminine plural jolies)
- pretty; cute
- 1980, Géza Képes, Béla Kàlmàn, Péter Domokos, Le pouvoir du chant : anthologie de la poésie populaire ouralienne:
- Julie, fille jolie, un jour était allée
cueillir au cœur des blés la belle fleur des blés,
des bleuets pour s’en faire une couronne bleue,
se faire une couronne et se distraire un peu.- Julie, a pretty girl, had gone one day
to pick among the wheat the beautiful flower of the cornfields,
cornflowers to make herself a blue wreath,
to make herself a wreath and amuse herself a little.
- Julie, a pretty girl, had gone one day
- (Louisiana) jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable
- Synonym: agréable
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Further reading edit
- “joli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦭꦶ (joli, “palanquin”), from Old Javanese joli (“palanquin”), from Sanskrit दोला (dolā, “litter”).[1]
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joli (plural joli-joli, first-person possessive joliku, second-person possessive jolimu, third-person possessive jolinya)
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- “joli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Lower Sorbian edit
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Conjunction edit
joli
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May optionally be followed by the conjunction až (“that”).
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- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “joli”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “joli”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
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Etymology edit
From Old French joli (“pretty, cute”), jolif (“pretty, smart, joyful, merry”), possibly from Old Norse jól (midwinter festival), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō (“Yule, Yule month, December”) (more at yule); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy).
Adjective edit
joli m
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- jolîment (“prettily”)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From an earlier jolif.
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joli m (oblique and nominative feminine singular jolie)