جنجال

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably borrowed from Urdu جنجال (janjāl) / Hindi जंजाल (jañjāl, entanglements, complications, problems), from Sanskrit जन (jana) + जालं (jālaṃ).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Readings
Dari reading? janjāl
Iranian reading? janjâl

Noun[edit]

جنجال (janjâl)

  1. tumult, commotion, brawl
  2. mob, raucous crowd

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Platts, John Thompson (1884) “جنجال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC