مجال

See also: محال

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ج و ل (j w l)
8 terms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒaːl/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. field (area of specialty)
2. extent
3. domain, area
4. 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.

5. place of combat, battlefield
6. skirmish
7. place of exercise for horses
8. circle
9. sphere of action, elbow room
10. power, capacity, possibility, opportunity
11. road, passage
12. career

Declension

Declension of noun مَجَال (majāl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	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
	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

Descendants

• → Amharic: መቻል (mäčal)
• → Azerbaijani: məcal
• → Ottoman Turkish: مجال (mecāl)

  > Turkish: mecal (inherited)

• → Tatar: мәҗал (mäcal)
• → Uyghur: ماجال (majal)
• → Uzbek: majol

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جول”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مجال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], 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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجَال (majāl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.ˈd͡ʒɑːl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.d͡ʒɑ́ːl]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.d͡ʒɒ́ːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.d͡ʒɔ́l]

Readings
Classical reading?	majāl
Dari reading?	majāl
Iranian reading?	majâl
Tajik reading?	majol

Noun

مجال • (majâl)

1. opportunity, chance, capacity

   Synonyms: فرصت (forsat), موقع (mowqe')

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 104:

     وصلش چه مجال من این فکر محالم بس
     کز دور توان دیدن خیل سپه او را

     waslaš či majāl man īn fikr-i muhālam bas
     k-az dūr tawān dīdan xayl u sipah-i ō rā

     What opportunity for union with the beloved? For me, this impossible thought is enough
     That her cavalry and army might be seen from afar.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مجال”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim