🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

आनंदित करना

Pronunciation / Transliteration: anandit karna

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Jollify/ˈdʒɒl.ɪ.faɪ/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"इस उत्सव ने सभी मेहमानों को आनंदित कर दिया।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make joyous, merry, or cheerful; to enliven.

    "The surprise party did much to jollify the weary travelers."
  2. 2

    To engage in merrymaking or festivities; to make merry.

    "The villagers gathered in the square to jollify after a successful harvest."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'jolly' (from Old French 'jolie', meaning pretty, merry, or cheerful) combined with the suffix '-ify' (from Latin '-ificare', meaning to make or produce). It emerged in the 18th century as a playful verb describing the action of making someone cheerful or engaging in merrymaking.

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