مجال

See also: محال

Arabic

Root
ج و ل (j w l)
8 terms

Noun of place from the verb جَالَ (jāla, “to go round, to roam”).

مَجَال • (majāl) m (plural مَجَالَات (majālāt))

field (area of specialty)
extent
domain, area
space
- 1982, Yusuf Idris, العسكري الأسود [The Black Military]:
  وَكَانَ، لِأَسْبَابٍ لَيْسَ هُنَا مَجَالُ تَقَصِّيهَا، قَدْ اِخْتَارَ فُتْرَةً بَعْدَ ٱلظُّهْرِ لِيَكُونَ ٱلنَّوْبَتْجِيَّ فِيهَا
  wakāna, liʔasbābin laysa hunā majālu taqaṣṣīhā, qad iḵtāra futratan baʕda ẓ-ẓuhri liyakūna n-nawbatjiyya fīhā
  And for reasons there's no space to investigate, he chose to have the shift in the afternoon.
place of combat, battlefield
skirmish
place of exercise for horses
circle
sphere of action, elbow room
power, capacity, possibility, opportunity
road, passage
career

Declension of noun **مَجَال** (majāl)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَجَال majāl	الْمَجَال al-majāl	مَجَال majāl
nominative	مَجَالٌ majālun	الْمَجَالُ al-majālu	مَجَالُ majālu
accusative	مَجَالًا majālan	الْمَجَالَ al-majāla	مَجَالَ majāla
genitive	مَجَالٍ majālin	الْمَجَالِ al-majāli	مَجَالِ majāli
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَجَالَيْن majālayn	الْمَجَالَيْن al-majālayn	مَجَالَيْ majālay
nominative	مَجَالَانِ majālāni	الْمَجَالَانِ al-majālāni	مَجَالَا majālā
accusative	مَجَالَيْنِ majālayni	الْمَجَالَيْنِ al-majālayni	مَجَالَيْ majālay
genitive	مَجَالَيْنِ majālayni	الْمَجَالَيْنِ al-majālayni	مَجَالَيْ majālay
plural	sound feminine plural
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَجَالَات majālāt	الْمَجَالَات al-majālāt	مَجَالَات majālāt
nominative	مَجَالَاتٌ majālātun	الْمَجَالَاتُ al-majālātu	مَجَالَاتُ majālātu
accusative	مَجَالَاتٍ majālātin	الْمَجَالَاتِ al-majālāti	مَجَالَاتِ majālāti
genitive	مَجَالَاتٍ majālātin	الْمَجَالَاتِ al-majālāti	مَجَالَاتِ majālāti

Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “جول”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مجال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
Wehr, Hans (1979) “جول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مَجَال (majāl).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.d͡ʒɑ́ːl]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.d͡ʒɑ́ːl]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.d͡ʒɔ́ːl̥]

مجال • (majâl)