jeli
English
Noun
jeli (plural jelis)
- A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).
- Synonym: griot
- 2000, Eric Charry, Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- Jeliya (the art of the jeli) goes back to the thirteenth-century origins of the Mali empire, although the institution of the griot in West Africa probably stems from the earlier Ghana empire (also known as Wagadu), which declined in the late eleventh century.
Bambara
Noun
jeli (plural jeliw)
- A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti) or a Common Slavic žaliti, from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.
Conjugation
conjugation of jeli (fourth conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a jeli | ||||||
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gerund | jelind | ||||||
past participle | jelit | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | jel | jeli | jele | jelim | jeliți | jel | |
imperfect | jeleam | jeleai | jelea | jeleam | jeleați | jeleau | |
simple perfect | jelii | jeliși | jeli | jelirăm | jelirăți | jeliră | |
pluperfect | jelisem | jeliseși | jelise | jeliserăm | jeliserăți | jeliseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să jel | să jeli | să jelă | să jelim | să jeliți | să jelă | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | jele | jeliți | |||||
negative | nu jeli | nu jeliți |
Serbo-Croatian
Silesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɛli/
- Rhymes: -ɛli
- Syllabification: je‧li
Further reading
- jeli in silling.org
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