jalousie

Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʒalʊziː/, /ʒalʊˈziː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæləsiː/

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jalousie (plural jalousies)

1. (naval architecture) A component in a ventilation system.
2. Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.

   • 2014, Kate Pullinger, The Last Time I Saw Jane:

     Nowhere the glitter of a glass casement; Venetian blinds, jalousies, closed every window, and rooms projected in all directions to catch the luxury of a through-draft of air.

3. A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.

• blind
• curtain

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.lu.zi/

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• Rhymes: -i

From jaloux +‎ -ie, 12th c..

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. jealousy
2. (botany) edible amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor)

   Synonyms: amarante tricolore, fleur de jalousie

3. (botany) sweet william (Dianthus barbatus)

   Synonyms: bouquet parfait, bouquet tout fait, œillet barbu, œillet de poète

4. (agriculture) a type of pear (fruit)

jalousies (1)

moucharabieh (2)

Borrowed from Italian gelosia, 15th c., from the same root.

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. Venetian blind
2. (historical) mashrabiyya, latticework screen

   Synonym: moucharabieh

• → Czech: žaluzie
• → Danish: jalousi
• → Dutch: jaloezie
• → English: jalousie
• → German: Jalousie
• → Polish: żaluzja
• → Russian: жалюзи́ (žaljuzí)
  • → Estonian: žalusii
  • → Azerbaijani: jalüz
• → Turkish: jaluzi

• “jalousie” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “jalousie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• jelousye, gelusie, jalousye, jaloucie, gelusye, gelosye, jelosye, gelosesye, jelowsy, gelesye, gelousy, jelosie

From Old French jalousie, derived from jalous, from Late Latin zelosus (“full of love and sympathy”), derived from Latin zelus (“zealous”), from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “envy, lust, rivalry”).

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛˈluːsiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛlusiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛləsiː(ə)/

jalousie (plural jelousies)

1. Jealousness or jealousy in a relationship or marriage.
2. Passion; romantic or sexual desire.
3. zealousness, devotion, belief.
4. (rare) distrust, wrath, ire
5. (rare) care, wrath, ire
6. (rare) paranoia, suspecting

• English: jealousy
• Scots: jealousy

• “jelǒusī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.

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jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (Jersey) sweet william (Dianthus barbatus)

• girofliée valine