jour

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

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jour (plural jours)

1. (chiefly US) Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.

From Middle French jour, from Old French jor(n), from Late Latin diurnum. Doublet of diurne, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ʒuʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

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 of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

2. daylight, light
3. opening, aperture

• journée
• aujourd’hui

• → Norwegian Bokmål: jour

• “jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• jor, jorn, jur

Inherited from Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs + -nus.

jour m (plural jours)

1. daylight
2. opening
3. day

• French: jour
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: jour

• jour on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norman Wikipedia has an article on:

nrf:Jouo

Wikipedia ^nrf

• jouo (continental Normandy)
• djö (Sark)

From Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum.

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jour m (plural jours)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) day
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, pages 530-31:

     Février dit à Janvier:—'Si j'étais à votre pièche je f'rais gelaïr le pots sus le faeu et les p'tits éfàns aux seins de leurs mères'—et pour son ìmpudence i' fut raccourchi de daeux jours, et Janvier fut aloigni.

     February said to January:—If I were in your place I would cause the pots to freeze on the fire, and babes at their mothers' breasts—and for his insolence he was shortened of two days, and January was lengthened.

• journée (Jersey), journaïe (Guernsey)

From French jour (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃʉːr/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːr
• Hyphenation: jour
• Homophone: Sjur

jour

1. Only used in à jour (“up to date, transparent”)
2. Only used in a jour (“up to date, transparent”)
3. Only used in ha jour (“to have a day of service; have a guard (or certain specific duties) on a certain day”)

• jourhavende (“serving for the day”)

• “jour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jour” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• jorn (Classical)

jour m (plural jours)

1. (Mistralian) day

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

jour

Wikipedia ^sv

jour c

1. on-call duty
   • 1998, “Jag ska bli en byråkrat [I will be a bureaucrat]”, in Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music), Electric Banana Tajm [Electric Banana Time ]‎, performed by Electric Banana Band:

     Och så, när klockan slår fem, då slutar jag och åker hem. Jag slipper nattskift och jour. Sån vill jag bli när jag blir stor.

     And then, when the clock strikes five, I finish and go home. I don't have to work night shifts and be on call . I want to be a person like that when I grow up such I want to become when I become big].

2. an on-call service or on-call personnel or the like; emergency services, a hotline, etc.

   ringa jouren

   call the emergency services

• bakjour (“on-call doctor to aid on-duty doctor”)
• helgjour (“weekend duty”)
• jourhavande (“on-duty”)
• jourläkarare (“doctor-on-call”)
• journummer (“hotline number”)
• jourpräst (“priest-on-call”)
• jourtjänstgöring (“on-call duty”)
• telefonjour (“telephone hotline”)

• jour in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jour in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jour in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)