loya jirga

1. 1.

   a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems

   “he convened a Loya Jirga that persuaded tribal leaders to acquiesce”

   BroaderJirga

   Afghanistan

Questions about loya jirga

What does loya jirga mean?

loya jirga means "a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems".

Is loya jirga a common word?

loya jirga is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.