jeli

From Bambara jeli.

jeli (plural jelis)

1. 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.

jeli (plural jeliw)

1. 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).

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti) or a Common Slavic žaliti, from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.

a jeli (third-person singular present jele, past participle jelit) 4th conj.

1. to wail, to mourn

• jelui
• plânge
• boci
• văita

jeli

1. dative/locative singular of jela

jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)

1. masculine plural active past participle of jesti

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛli/
• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Syllabification: je‧li

jeli

1. Alternative form of jeśli

• jeli in silling.org