joli

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

• beau

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

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, first-person possessive joliku, second-person possessive jolimu, third-person possessive jolinya)

1. palanquin

   Synonyms: duli, tandu, usungan

2. pair

   Synonym: pasangan

3. yawl, jolly-boat

• “joli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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 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