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Jul
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Appendix:Variations of "jul"
English
Proper noun
en Q121 en July<id:Q121>.
en Jul.<id:Q121> JUL<id:Q121>
en Jan<id:Q108> Feb<id:Q109> Mar<id:Q110> Apr<id:Q118> May<id:Q119> Jun<id:Q120> Aug<id:Q122> Sep/Sept<id:Q123> Oct<id:Q124> Nov<id:Q125> Dec<id:Q126>
Translations
abbreviation of July
Afrikaans: af Jul.
Albanian: sq korr
Armenian: hy հլս
Azerbaijani: az iyl
Basque: eu uzt.
Belarusian: be ліп
Bengali: bn জুল
Burmese: my ဇူ
Catalan: ca jul.
Czech: cs čvc
Danish: da jul.
Dutch: nl jul
Finnish: fi heinä, fi heinäk.
French: fr juil., fr juill.
Galician: gl xul.
Georgian: ka ივლ.
German: de Jul.
Greek: el Ιούλ, el Ιουλ
Hindi: hi जुल॰
Hungarian: hu júl.
Icelandic: is júl.
Indonesian: id Jul
Italian: it lug., it lug
Kazakh: kk шіл.
Kyrgyz: ky июн.
Latvian: lv jūl.
Lithuanian: lt liep.
Macedonian: mk јул.
Malay: ms Jul
Polish: pl lip
Portuguese: pt jul.
Punjabi: pa ਜੁਲਾ
Romanian: ro iul.
Russian: ru июл.
Scottish Gaelic: gd Iuch
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh јул m
Latin: sh jul m, sh srp m Croatia
Slovene: sl jul.
Spanish: es jul., es jul
Swahili: sw Jul
Swedish: sv jul., sv jul
Tagalog: tl Hul.
Thai: th ก.ค.
Turkish: tr Tem
Ukrainian: uk лип.
Uzbek: uz iyl
Welsh: cy Gorff
en abbreviations
Danish
Etymology
From da non Gyrðr, a short form of en Guðrøðr, equivalent to en Godfrey.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da male
da female
German
Etymology
de :bor da:jul
From de da jul
Pronunciation
de /juːl/
Noun
n,(s).sg
Yule.
de Julfest
Declension
n,(s).sg
Descendants
1 nl joel
Indonesian
Proper noun
id proper noun
id Juli July
id Jan Feb Mar Apr Mei Jun Agu Sep Okt Nov Des
Malay
Proper noun
ms proper noun
ms Julai July
ms Jan Feb Mac Apr Mei Jun Ogo Sep Okt Nov Dis
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
nb Gjul for the dialectal-origin name
Etymology
nb Origin uncertain. Several origins have been proposed for the Norwegian name:
a dialectal spelling variant of nb Gjul, related to nb Gjurd and nb Gyrd, perhaps ultimately from nb non Guðfrøðr m, a dithematic name whose elements mean “god” and “peace”;
a short form of nb Julius;
nb gmq-oda Jul m, a younger form of nb non Ígull m, from non ígull hedgehog; sea urchin.“Jul” in Store norske leksikon.“Jul” at Nordic Names.
Compare da Jul and sv Jul male given name.
Pronunciation
nb /jʉːl/ [jʉːl]
nb ʉːl 1
nb Juul Gjul jul hjul
nb Jul
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb male
Usage notes
Many Norwegian bearers of nb Jul were born on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
The name had its strongest period of use in Norway approximately from 1900 to 1925. It was particularly associated with Eastern Norway, especially Oppland.
Derived terms
nb Juline female form
Statistics
As of 1 January 2026, 52 men registered in Norway had nb Jul as their first given name.“Navn”, updated 28 January 2026, Statistics Norway.
As of the same date, 15 people had nb Jul registered in the combined middle-name/surname category.
References
Anagrams
nb jlu jul
Swahili
Proper noun
sw proper noun
sw Julai July
sw Jan Feb Mac Apr Mei Jun Ago Sep Okt Nov Des