joli

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
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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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