مجلس

Arabic

Root
ج ل س (j-l-s)

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb جَلَسَ (jalasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mad͡ʒ.lis/

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Noun

مَجْلِس • (majlis) m (plural مَجالِس (majālis))

1. seat

   Synonym: مَقْعَد (maqʕad)

2. place of meeting; seat of an assembling body; conference room; court; tribunal
3. (figurative) session, sitting, meeting, party
4. (figurative) council, college, collegium, board, committee, commission
5. (Shia Islam) husainiya

   Synonyms: حُسَيْنِيَّة (ḥusayniyya), (dialectal) مَأْتَم (maʔtam)

Declension

Declension of noun مَجْلِس (majlis)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجْلِس majlis	الْمَجْلِس al-majlis	مَجْلِس majlis
Nominative	مَجْلِسٌ majlisun	الْمَجْلِسُ al-majlisu	مَجْلِسُ majlisu
Accusative	مَجْلِسًا majlisan	الْمَجْلِسَ al-majlisa	مَجْلِسَ majlisa
Genitive	مَجْلِسٍ majlisin	الْمَجْلِسِ al-majlisi	مَجْلِسِ majlisi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجْلِسَيْن majlisayn	الْمَجْلِسَيْن al-majlisayn	مَجْلِسَيْ majlisay
Nominative	مَجْلِسَانِ majlisāni	الْمَجْلِسَانِ al-majlisāni	مَجْلِسَا majlisā
Accusative	مَجْلِسَيْنِ majlisayni	الْمَجْلِسَيْنِ al-majlisayni	مَجْلِسَيْ majlisay
Genitive	مَجْلِسَيْنِ majlisayni	الْمَجْلِسَيْنِ al-majlisayni	مَجْلِسَيْ majlisay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجالِس majālis	الْمَجالِس al-majālis	مَجالِس majālis
Nominative	مَجالِسُ majālisu	الْمَجالِسُ al-majālisu	مَجالِسُ majālisu
Accusative	مَجالِسَ majālisa	الْمَجالِسَ al-majālisa	مَجالِسَ majālisa
Genitive	مَجالِسَ majālisa	الْمَجالِسِ al-majālisi	مَجالِسِ majālisi

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
• Maltese: miġles
• Moroccan Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
• → Armenian: մաջլիս (maǰlis)
• → Azerbaijani: məclis
• → Georgian: მეჯლისი (meǯlisi)
• → Malay: majlis
  • Indonesian: majelis, madjelis; majlis
• → Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
  • Turkish: meclis
    • → English: mejlis
  • → Macedonian: меџлис (medžlis)
  • → Russian: меджли́с (medžlís), маджли́с (madžlís)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мѐџлис

    Latin script: mèdžlis

• → Persian: مَجْلِس (majles)
  • → Bengali: মজলিস (mojoliś)
  • → English: majlis
    • → Finnish: majlis
  • → Gujarati: મજલિસ (majlis)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: मजलिस (majlis)

    Urdu: مَجْلِس (majlis)

  • → Portuguese: majlis
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਮਜਲਸ (majlas)

    Shahmukhi script: مجلس (majlas)

• → Swahili: majilisi
• → Uyghur: مەجلىس (mejlis)
• → Uzbek: majlis

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis, “seat; meeting, session”), noun of place from جَلَسَ (jalasa, “to sit”).

Noun

مجلس • (meclis) (definite accusative مجلسی (meclisi), plural مجالس (mecâlis))

1. seat, something to be sat upon, especially a place in which a person or a group of people can sit

   Synonym: اوتوراق (oturak)

2. convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose

   Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), انجمن (encümen), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), درنك (dernek)

3. council, board, a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions
4. session, a period devoted to a particular activity, especially in reference to councils and courts
5. court of law, a court presided over by a judge who is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes

   Synonym: عدلیه (ʼadliye)

Derived terms

• صدر مجلس (sadr-ı meclis, “chief seat in an assembly”)
• مجلس آرا (meclis ara, “eloquent person”)
• مجلس اوطه‌سی (meclis odası, “council chamber”)
• مجلس اولمق (meclis olmak, “to be assembled in a meeting”)
• مجلس ایتمك (meclis etmek, “to hold a meeting”)
• مجلس خاص (meclis-i has, “cabinet council”)
• مجلس شرع (meclis-i şerʼ, “court of canon law”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: meclis
  • → English: mejlis
• → Macedonian: меџлис (medžlis)
• → Russian: меджли́с (medžlís), маджли́с (madžlís)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: мѐџлис

  Latin script: mèdžlis

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meclis”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3100
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “meclis”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 710
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجلس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1123
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Consessus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 253
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مجلس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4405
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meclis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجلس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1750

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mad͡ʒ.ˈlis]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lís]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæd͡ʒ.lés]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.lís]

Readings
Classical reading?	majlis
Dari reading?	majlis
Iranian reading?	majles
Tajik reading?	majlis

Noun

Dari	مجلس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маҷлис

مَجْلِس • (majles) (plural مجالس)

1. parliament
2. assembly
3. Majlis

Related terms

• مَجلِسِ شورایِ اِسْلامی (majles-e šurâ-ye eslâmi)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: মজলিস (mojoliś)
• → English: majlis
  • → Finnish: majlis
• → Gujarati: મજલિસ (majlis)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मजलिस (majlis)

  Urdu: مَجْلِس (majlis)

• → Portuguese: majlis
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਜਲਸ (majlas)

  Shahmukhi script: مجلس (majlas)