jol

Shortened from jolly?

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒəʊl/

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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.^[1]

   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.

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

• J-Lo

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.^[1]

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jol f (plural jollen, diminutive jolletje n)

1. yawl

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

jol

1. way, road

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

From Proto-Turkic *yōl.

jol

1. way, road

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

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

• jøl, ol, jul (dialectal)

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

1. wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)

   Synonyms: sløkje, skogstut

• geitjol
• kujol
• kvannjol
• sløkjejol
• vendeljol

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.

• jul

• IPA^(key): /juːl/, /juːɽ/

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)

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

jol f

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) alternative spelling of jord (“earth”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Syllabification: jol

Borrowed from German Jolle,^[1][2] from Low German jolle, from Middle Low German jolle. Doublet of jola.

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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

jol f

1. genitive plural of jola

• jol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

jol (nominative plural jols)

1. waterside, beach, bank