Word
Jirga, n.
a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders
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Jirga
sample sentences
"most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police"
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan
hypernym
council
hyponym
Loya Jirga