jol

See also: Jol, jól, jòl, jöl, Jöl, joł, and -joł

English

Etymology

Shortened from jolly?

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒəʊl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

jol (plural jols)

1. (South Africa, slang) A party.
   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249:

     —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.

   • 2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times‎^[1]:

     I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.

2. (UK) A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.

   Synonyms: desert, plateau, flatland

   • 1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI:

     The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding recent deposits, are the Eocene limestones of the jol, the succession seeming more complete in the north.

   • 2006, Masaa Al Jumaily, David P. Mallon, Abdul Karim Nasher, Nagi Thowabeh, “Status Report on Arabian Leopard in Yemen”, in Cat News, volume Special Volume 1, →ISSN, page 23:

     An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali.

Verb

jol (third-person singular simple present jols, present participle jolling or joling, simple past and past participle jolled or joled)

1. (South Africa, slang) to party

See also

• JO1
• JOI

Anagrams

• J-Lo

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly from Low German and Middle Low German jolle (“dinghy”), possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

jol f (plural jollen, diminutive jolletje n)

1. yawl

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yōl. Cognate to Karachay-Balkar джол (col), Kumyk ёл (yol), Crimean Tatar yol, Urum йол (yol), etc.

Noun

jol

1. way, road

References

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “jol”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Karakalpak

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yōl.

Noun

jol

1. way, road

References

• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “жол”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse jóll, jóli, whence also Faroese jólur and Icelandic njóli (< hvannjóli). Related to aul and aule (“hollow plant stem”).

Alternative forms

• jøl, ol, jul (dialectal)

Noun

jol m (definite singular jolen, indefinite plural jolar, definite plural jolane)

1. wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)

   Synonyms: sløkje, skogstut

Derived terms

• geitjol
• kujol
• kvannjol
• sløkjejol
• vendeljol

Etymology 2

From Old West Norse jól n pl, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō. Cognate with Old East Norse iūl, whence also jul. Akin to English Yule.

Alternative forms

• jul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːl/, /juːɽ/

Noun

jol f (definite singular jola, uncountable)

1. Christmas, Christmastide

   Eg gler meg til jol.

   I look forward to Christmas.

2. Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)

Derived terms

• god jol
• jolaftan
• jolekvelden
• jolenek
• jolenissen
• joletuften
• joleøl
• romjol

References

• “jol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “jol” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Etymology 3

Noun

jol f

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndersk, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of jord (“earth”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Syllabification: jol

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Jolle, from Low German jolle, from Middle Low German jolle. Doublet of jola.

Noun

jol m inan

1. yawl (fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post)
2. yawl (small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars)

Declension

Declension of jol

	singular	plural
nominative	jol	jole
genitive	jola	joli
dative	jolowi	jolom
accusative	jol	jole
instrumental	jolem	jolami
locative	jolu	jolach
vocative	jolu	jole

Related terms

nouns

• jola
• jolka

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

jol f

1. genitive plural of jola

Further reading

• jol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Volapük

Noun

jol (nominative plural jols)

1. waterside, beach, bank

Declension

Declension of jol

	singular	plural
nominative	jol	jols
genitive	jola	jolas
dative	jole	joles
accusative	joli	jolis
vocative 1	o jol!	o jols!
predicative 2	jolu	jolus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only