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say it: JUR-guh
jirga is a noun meaning "a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɝɡə/ — JUR-guh. It carries one recorded sense.
a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders
“most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police”
Pashto
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jirga come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.