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jour

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jour (plural jours)

  1. (chiefly US) Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.

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other terms containing "jour", etymologically unrelated

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    From Middle French jour, from Old French jor(n), from Late Latin diurnum. Doublet of diurne, a borrowing.

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    jour m (plural jours)

    1. day
      • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎fr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
        L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
        The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.
    2. daylight, light
    3. opening, aperture

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    • → Norwegian Bokmål: jour

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    Middle French

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      Inherited from Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs + -nus.

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      jour m (plural jours)

      1. daylight
      2. opening
      3. day

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      • jour on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

      Norman

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      Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia nrf

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      From Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum.

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      jour m (plural jours)

      1. (Jersey, Guernsey) day
        • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[1], pages 530-31:
          Février dit à Janvier:—'Si j'étais à votre pièche je f'rais gelaïr le pots sus le faeu et les p'tits éfàns aux seins de leurs mères'—et pour son ìmpudence i' fut raccourchi de daeux jours, et Janvier fut aloigni.
          February said to January:—If I were in your place I would cause the pots to freeze on the fire, and babes at their mothers' breasts—and for his insolence he was shortened of two days, and January was lengthened.

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      Norwegian Bokmål

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      From French jour (“day”).

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      jour

      1. Only used in à jour (“up to date, transparent”)
      2. Only used in a jour (“up to date, transparent”)
      3. Only used in ha jour (“to have a day of service; have a guard (or certain specific duties) on a certain day”)

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      Occitan

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      jour m (plural jours)

      1. (Mistralian) day

      Swedish

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      Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Borrowed from French jour (“day”), ultimately derived from Late Latin diurnum (“day”). First attested in 1886[1].

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      jour c

      1. on-call duty
        • 1998, “Jag ska bli en byråkrat [I will [shall] be a bureaucrat]”, in Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music), Electric Banana Tajm [Electric Banana Time [with jocular Swedification of "time"]]‎[2], performed by Electric Banana Band:
          Och så, när klockan slår fem, då slutar jag och åker hem. Jag slipper nattskift och jour. Sån vill jag bli när jag blir stor.
          And then, when the clock strikes five, [then] I finish and go home. I don't have to work night shifts and be on call [do not have to deal with night shifts and on-call duty]. I want to be a person like that when I grow up [[a] such [person] I want to become when I become big].
        • 2015 October 9, Elin Steen, “Marianne jobbar sovande jour [Marianne works sleeping on-call shifts]”, in Kommunalarbetaren:
          Sovande jour innebär att man får sova på arbetsplatsen, men måste vakna och jobba om det behövs. Villkoren för jouren varierar beroende på vilket avtal man har. […] Klockan sex slutar jouren. Barnen börjar vakna och ska äta frukost, några barn hämtas och några lämnas. Är det vardag så jobbar Marianne till 8.30, sen går hon hem.
          Sleeping on-call means you can sleep at the workplace but must wake up and work if needed. The conditions for on-call shifts vary depending on the agreement in place. […] The on-call shift ends at six o’clock. The children start waking up and need breakfast; some are picked up, and others are dropped off. On weekdays, Marianne works until 8:30 before going home.
        • 2024 November 5, Anna-Cajsa Torkelsson, “Nytt avtal i Örebro gör att gravida slipper gå jour: »En självklarhet« [New agreement in Örebro means pregnant workers can avoid being on call: "A given"]”, in Läkartidningen:
          Det har inte setts som en prioriterad fråga, och från regionens sida har det funnits farhågor om att alla gravida kommer tacka nej till jour. Så tror jag absolut inte att det kommer bli. En del lär avstå från jour, andra inte.
          It hasn’t been considered a priority issue, and from the regional administration's perspective, there have been concerns that all pregnant workers will decline on-call duty. I absolutely don’t think that will happen. Some will opt out of on-call duty, others won’t.
      2. an on-call service or on-call personnel or the like; urgent services, a hotline, etc.
        ringa jouren
        call the on-call services
        • 2024 November 12, Agneta Sundberg, “Löftet till Oscar: Politiker tittar på jour för hjälpmedel [The promise to Oscar: Politicians are looking into an on-call service for assistive devices]”, in P4 Gävleborg, Sveriges Radio:
          Att det inte finns en jour att vända sig till när den krånglar känns otryggt berättar han.
          He says that the lack of an on-call service to turn to when it malfunctions feels unsafe.

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      Declension of jour
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite jour jours
      definite jouren jourens
      plural indefinite jourer jourers
      definite jourerna jourernas

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      1. ^ jour in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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