Inherited from Middle French joly ( “ considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty ” ) , from Old French joli , jolif ( “ pretty, smart, joyful, merry ” ) , possibly from Old Norse jol ( midwinter festival ) , from Proto-Germanic *jehwl? , *jeul? ( “ Yule, Yule month, December ” ) (more at yule ); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaude? , more at joy ).

• IPA ^{( key )} : /??.li/

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

1. pretty ; cute
   • 1980 , Geza Kepes, Bela Kalman, Peter Domokos, Le pouvoir du chant : anthologie de la poesie populaire ouralienne :

     Julie, fille jolie , un jour etait allee
     cueillir au cœur des bles la belle fleur des bles,
     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: agreable

• mignon

• faire joli
• jolie laide
• joliment

• enjoliver

• beau

• “ joli ”, in Tresor de la langue francaise informatise [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

From Javanese ????? ( joli , “ palanquin ” ) , from Old Javanese joli ( “ palanquin ” ) , from Sanskrit ???? ( dol? , “ litter ” ) . ^[1]

• IPA ^{( key )} : /?d??oli/
• Rhymes: -li , -i
• Hyphenation: jo?li

joli ( plural joli - joli , first-person possessive joli ku , second-person possessive joli mu , third-person possessive joli nya )

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 )} : /?j?li/ , [?j?l?i]

joli

1. if

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

• -li
• ga?
• gaby

• Muka, Arno?t ( 1921, 1928 ) “ joli ”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН , ?AVU ; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred ( 1999 ) “ joli ”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Worterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Old French joli ( “ pretty, cute ” ) , jolif ( “ pretty, smart, joyful, merry ” ) , possibly from Old Norse jol ( midwinter festival ) , from Proto-Germanic *jehwl? , *jeul? ( “ Yule, Yule month, December ” ) (more at yule ); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaude? , more at joy ).

joli   m

1. ( Jersey ) pretty

• joliment ( “ prettily ” )

From an earlier jolif .

joli   m ( oblique and nominative feminine singular jolie )

1. pretty ; cute