FromBambarajeli.

jeli (pluraljelis)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among theMandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people'soral 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 thejeli) 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 (pluraljeliw)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among theMandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people'soral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).

Borrowed fromOld Church Slavonicжалити(žaliti), fromProto-Slavic*žaliti. CompareBulgarianжаля(žalja),Serbo-Croatianžaliti.

a jeli (third-person singular presentjele,past participlejelit) 4th conjugation

1. towail, tomourn

• jelui
• plânge
• boci
• văita

jeli

1. dative/locativesingular ofjela

jeli (Cyrillic spellingјели)

1. masculinepluralactivepastparticiple ofjesti

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.li/

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• Rhymes:-ɛli
• Syllabification:je‧li

jeli

1. Alternative form ofjeśli

• jeli in silling.org

• sieli

Borrowed fromEnglishjelly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛli/

jeli m (pluraljelis,not mutable)

1. jelly;jello(dessert made by boilinggelatine, sugar and some flavouring and allowing it toset)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “jeli”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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