jeli
See also: jęli and jēli
English
Etymology
From Bambara jeli.
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, Charry, Eric, 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.
Verb
a jeli (third-person singular present jele, past participle jelit) 4th conj.
- to wail, to mourn
Conjugation
conjugation of jeli (fourth conjugation, no infix)
| infinitive | a jeli | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
See also
- jelui
- plânge
- boci
- văita
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
jeli
- dative/locative singular of jela
Participle
jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)
- masculine plural active past participle of jesti