gele

• gelee

Borrowed from Yoruba gèlè.

gele (plural gele or geles)

1. A traditional head tie native to Yoruba women of West Africa (Nigeria, Benin and Togo).
   • 2024 July 25, Jason Farago, “Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     At recent parades of nations women on the Indian team have worn saris, and on the Nigerian one geles. Caribbean contingents can be relied on for color.

•   gele (head tie) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈχɪə.lə/

gele

1. attributive form of geel

gele

1. African mesquite (Prosopis africana)

• gelé

From French gelée, from Latin gelātus (“frozen”).

• IPA^(key): /sjele/, [ɕeˈle]
• Rhymes: -e

gele c (singular definite geleen, plural indefinite geleer)

1. jelly
2. gel

• geleagtig, geléagtig

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• Rhymes: -eːlə
• IPA^(key): /ˈɣeː.lə/

gele

1. inflection of geel:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• egel, geel, leeg, lege

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gele

1. inflection of gel:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

gele (first-person possessive geleku, second-person possessive gelemu, third-person possessive gelenya)

1. marijuana

• jelyf, gelly, gelye, gelle, gelee, gely

Borrowed from Old French gelee (“frost”), from Early Medieval Latin gelāta. Equivalent to gelen +‎ -e (participial suffix).

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛˈleː/, /ˈdʒɛːleː/

gele (plural gelees)

1. A jelly made from the stock of meats or a meal it is part of.
2. (medicine) A jelly used as a pharmaceutical.
3. Any jelly or something that resembles it.

• gelen

• English: jelly
• Scots: jeely

• “ǧelẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-11.

• IPA^(key): /ŋeːleː/

gele

1. start crying

• gegele

gele m (definite singular geleen, indefinite plural geleer, definite plural geleene)

1. alternative spelling of gelé

gele m (definite singular geleen, indefinite plural gelear, definite plural geleane)

1. alternative spelling of gelé

gele

1. inflection of gelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.l̪e/

gele

1. (stative) to be blunt

• gegele

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

Probably from Hausa gyàlè (“shawl”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡè.lè/

gèlè

1. a woman's headwrap

   we gèlè ― to wear a gele

   • 1993 November 24, Antonia Yétúndé Fọlárìn Schleicher, “Ẹ̀kọ́ Kẹsànán - Clothing”, in Jẹ́ K'Á Sọ Yorùbá [Let's Speak Yoruba], Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 159:

     Fún òde pàtàkì, obìnrin Yorùbá gbọ́dọ̀ ró ìró, ó gbọ́dọ̀ wọ bùbá, ó gbọ́dọ̀ we gèlè, ó sì gbọ́dọ̀ fi ìboorùn kọ́ èjìká.

     For important occasions, a Yoruba woman must tie a wrapper, wear a blouse, wear a gele, and hang a scarf on her shoulder.

• → English: gele, gelee