Define:Jour

French

Pronunciation

• /ʒuʁ/
• audio 

Etymology

Frae Auld French jor, jorn, frae Laitin diurnum [tempus], frae the neuter o the adjective diurnus (“o the day”), which is cognate wi diēs (“day”). Doublet of diurne, a borraein.

Noun

Jour m (plural Jours)

1. day
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:

     L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.

     The dawn o the day wis beginnin tae braik when Don Quixote left the inn, sae content, sae glorious, so full o ravishment o seein himsel airmed a knicht, that his joy made him tremmle aw the wey tae the girths o his horse.

2. daylicht, licht
3. appenin, apertur

Related terms

• journée

Further reading

• “Jour” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norman

Alternative forms

• jouo (continental Normandy)
• djö (Sark)

Etymology

Frae Auld French jor, jorn, frae Laitin diurnum [tempus], frae the neuter o the adjective diurnus (“o the day”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey) 

Noun

Jour m (plural Jours)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) day

Derived terms

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• Jour dé l'An (“New Year's Day”)
• jour de naissànse (“birthday”)
• Jour d'la Libéthâtion (“Liberation Day”)
• jour pouor lé Rouai (“day off”)
• tchînze jours (“fortnicht”)

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Related terms

• journée (Jersey), journaïe (Guernsey)

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• jorn (Classical)

Noun

Jour m (plural Jours)

1. (Mistralian) day

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Swadish

Noun

Jour c

1. Time whan a wirker is normally nae scheduled tae wirk, but is scheduled tae be quickly available if thare is a sudden need.