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مجلس
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Arabic
Etymology
Noun of place from the verb جَلَسَ (jalasa).
Pronunciation
Noun
مَجْلِس • (majlis) m (plural مَجالِس (majālis))
- seat
- Synonym: مَقْعَد (maqʕad)
- place of meeting; seat of an assembling body; conference room; court; tribunal
- (figurative) session, sitting, meeting, party
- (figurative) council, college, collegium, board, committee, commission
- (Shia Islam) husainiya
- Synonyms: حُسَيْنِيَّة (ḥusayniyya), (dialectal) مَأْتَم (maʔtam)
Declension
Descendants
- Gulf Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
- Maltese: miġles
- Moroccan Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
- → Armenian: մաջլիս (maǰlis)
- → Azerbaijani: məclis
- → Georgian: მეჯლისი (meǯlisi)
- → Malay: majlis
- → Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
- → Persian: مَجْلِس (majles)
- → Swahili: majilisi
- → Turkmen: mejlis
- → Uyghur: مەجلىس (mejlis)
- → Uzbek: majlis
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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis, “seat; meeting, session”), noun of place from جَلَسَ (jalasa, “to sit”).
Noun
مجلس • (meclis) (definite accusative مجلسی (meclisi), plural مجالس (mecâlis))
- seat, something to be sat upon, especially a place in which a person or a group of people can sit
- Synonym: اوتوراق (oturak)
- convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose
- council, board, a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions
- Synonym: مشورت (meşveret)
- session, a period devoted to a particular activity, especially in reference to councils and courts
- Synonym: جلسه (celse)
- court of law, a court presided over by a judge who is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes
- Synonym: عدلیه (ʼadliye)
Derived terms
- صدر مجلس (sadr-ı meclis, “chief seat in an assembly”)
- مجلس آرا (meclis ara, “eloquent person”)
- مجلس اوطهسی (meclis odası, “council chamber”)
- مجلس اولمق (meclis olmak, “to be assembled in a meeting”)
- مجلس ایتمك (meclis etmek, “to hold a meeting”)
- مجلس خاص (meclis-i has, “cabinet council”)
- مجلس شرع (meclis-i şerʼ, “court of canon law”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “meclis”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3100
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “meclis”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 710
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مجلس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1123
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Consessus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 253
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مجلس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4405
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “meclis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مجلس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1750
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Persian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /mad͡ʒ.ˈlis/
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæd͡ʒ.lés]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lís]
Noun
مَجْلِس • (majles) (plural مجالس)
Related terms
- مَجلِسِ شورایِ اِسْلامی (majles-e šurâ-ye eslâmi)
Descendants
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