jeli

From Bambara jeli.

jeli (plural jelis)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).

   Synonym: griot

   • 2000, Eric Charry, Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     Jeliya (the art of the jeli) goes back to the thirteenth-century origins of the Mali empire, although the institution of the griot in West Africa probably stems from the earlier Ghana empire (also known as Wagadu), which declined in the late eleventh century.

jeli (plural jeliw)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).

Borrowed from English jelly, from Middle English gele, from Old French gelee, from Medieval Latin gelāta, from Latin gelō + -āta.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeli/ [ˈd͡ʒe.li]
• Rhymes: -eli
• Syllabification: je‧li

jeli (plural jeli-jeli)

1. jelly

Inherited from Malay jeli. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈli/ [d͡ʒəˈli]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: je‧li

jeli (comparative lebih jeli, superlative paling jeli)

1. beautiful, charming, ravishing.
2. attentive, observant, sharp.

   Synonyms: awas, tajam

• “jeli”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti), from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.

a jeli (third-person singular present jele, past participle jelit) 4th conjugation

1. to wail, to mourn

• jelui
• plânge
• boci
• văita

jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)

1. dative/locative singular of jela

jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)

1. masculine plural active past participle of jesti

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.li/

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• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Syllabification: je‧li

jeli

1. alternative form of jeśli

• jeli in silling.org

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Borrowed from English gel.

jeli class IX (plural jeli class X)

1. gel

Borrowed from English jelly.

jeli class IX (plural jeli class X)

1. jelly

• sieli

Borrowed from English jelly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛli/

jeli m (plural jelis, not mutable)

1. jelly; jello (dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring and allowing it to set)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “jeli”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies