JIRGA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)