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JIRGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders
Example:
most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Jirga" is a kind of...):
council (a meeting of people for consultation)
Domain category:
Afghan; Afghani; Pashto; Pashtu; Paxto (an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jirga"):
Loya Jirga (a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems)
