joli

From French joli.

joli

1. lovely, beautiful

   Synonym: bèl

   Antonym: lèd

• Crosbie, Paul et al. (2001), Kwéyòl Dictionary‎^[4], Castries, Saint Lucia: Ministry of Education, Government of Saint Lucia, →ISBN, page 94

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).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.li/

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joli (feminine jolie, masculine plural jolis, feminine plural jolies)

1. 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.

2. (Louisiana) jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable

   Synonym: agréable

• mignon

• faire joli
• jolie laide
• joliment

• enjoliver

• Antillean Creole: joli
• Mauritian Creole: zoli
• Seychellois Creole: zoli

• beau

• “joli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Malay joli from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦭꦶ (joli, “palanquin”), from Old Javanese joli (“palanquin”), from Sanskrit दोला (dolā, “litter”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒoli/
• Rhymes: -li, -i
• Hyphenation: jo‧li

joli (plural joli-joli)

1. palanquin

   Synonyms: duli, tandu, usungan

2. pair

   Synonym: pasangan

3. yawl, jolly-boat

• “joli”, 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

• jolic

jo +‎ -li

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔli/, [ˈjɔlʲi]

joli

1. if

May optionally be followed by the conjunction až (“that”).

• -li
• gaž
• gaby

• 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

From Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦭꦶ (joli, “palanquin”), from Old Javanese joli (“palanquin”), from Sanskrit दोला (dolā, “litter”).^[1][2] Doublet of duli and juli.

joli (Jawi spelling جولي, plural joli-joli or joli²)

1. palanquin

   Synonyms: duli, tandu, usungan

2. yawl, jolly-boat

   Synonym: juli

From Hindi जोड़ी (joṛī) influenced by Etymology 1, from use of palanquins to carry the bride and grrom in wedding processions

joli (Jawi spelling جولي, plural joli-joli or joli²)

1. pair

   Synonym: pasangan

From English jolly, influenced by Etymologies 1 & 2 through association with festive nature of weddings > festivities in general

joli (Jawi spelling جولي)

berjoli

1. (Malaysia) to splurge on goods
2. (Malaysia) to party

   Synonyms: berpesta, berparti

   1. to get drunk or wasted from such activities

      Synonym: mabuk

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “joli”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 477

• "joli" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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).

joli m

1. (Jersey) pretty

• jolîment (“prettily”)

From an earlier jolif.

joli m (oblique and nominative feminine singular jolie)

1. pretty; cute