JIRGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jirga mean? 

• JIRGA (noun)
  The noun JIRGA has 1 sense:

1. a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders

  Familiarity information: JIRGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JIRGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police

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)