مجال

See also: محال

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ج و ل (j-w-l)

Noun of place from the verb جَالَ (jāla, to go round, to roam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.d͡ʒaːl/
  • (file)

Noun

مَجَال • (majāl) m (plural مَجَالَات (majālāt))

  1. field (area of specialty)
  2. extent
  3. space
    • 1982, Yusuf Idris, العسكري الأسود [The Black Military]:
      وَكَانَ، لِأَسْبَابٍ لَيْسَ هُنَا مَجَالُ تَقَصِّيهَا، قَدْ اِخْتَارَ فُتْرَةً بَعْدَ ٱلظُّهْرِ لِيَكُونَ ٱلنَّوْبَتْجِيَّ فِيهَا
      wakāna, liʔasbābin laysa hunā majālu taqaṣṣīhā, qad iḵtāra futratan baʕda ẓ-ẓuhri liyakūna n-nawbatjiyya fīhā
      And for reasons there's no space to investigate, he chose to have the shift in the afternoon.
  4. place of combat, battlefield
  5. skirmish
  6. place of exercise for horses
  7. circle
  8. sphere of action, elbow room
  9. power, capacity, possibility, opportunity
  10. road, passage
  11. career

Declension

Descendants

  • Amharic: መቻል (mäčal)
  • Azerbaijani: məcal
  • Ottoman Turkish: مجال (mecāl)
    > Turkish: mecal (inherited)
  • Tatar: мәҗал (mäcal)
  • Uyghur: ماجال (majal)
  • Uzbek: majol

References

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