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LOYA JIRGA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Loya Jirga mean?
• LOYA JIRGA (noun)
The noun LOYA JIRGA has 1 sense:
1. a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems
Familiarity information: LOYA JIRGA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
he convened a Loya Jirga that persuaded tribal leaders to acquiesce
Hypernyms ("Loya Jirga" is a kind of...):
Jirga (a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders)
Domain region:
Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan (a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south)
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